SAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sat mean? 

• SAT (noun)
  The noun SAT has 1 sense:

1. the seventh and last day of the week; observed as the Sabbath by Jews and some Christians

  Familiarity information: SAT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The seventh and last day of the week; observed as the Sabbath by Jews and some Christians

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Sabbatum; Sat; Saturday

Hypernyms ("Sat" is a kind of...):

weekday (any day except Sunday (and sometimes except Saturday))

Holonyms ("Sat" is a part of...):

weekend (a time period usually extending from Friday night through Sunday; more loosely defined as any period of successive days including one and only one Sunday)

 Context examples 

Then she sat upon a settee and watched the people dance.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

They were gazing at the she-wolf, who sat smiling in the snow.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

When they were sat down, the farmer placed me at some distance from him on the table, which was thirty feet high from the floor.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I had succumbed and slept where I sat in the stern-sheets.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Joe sat around and explained his system, but he did no more work.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

In a few days Mr. Bingley returned Mr. Bennet's visit, and sat about ten minutes with him in his library.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

She had left the instrument on the dancing being over, and he had sat down to try to make out an air which he wished to give the Miss Musgroves an idea of.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

For Henry had been there; Henry had sat by her and helped her.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I sat three-quarters of an hour in the flower-garden, while Fanny cut the roses; and very pleasant it was, I assure you, but very hot.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

But the sparrow sat on the outside of the window, and cried “Carter! thy cruelty shall cost thee thy life!”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)