SEATING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does seating mean? 

• SEATING (noun)
  The noun SEATING has 2 senses:

1. an area that includes places where several people can sit

2. the service of ushering people to their seats

  Familiarity information: SEATING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEATING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An area that includes places where several people can sit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

seating; seating area; seating room; seats

Context example:

there is seating for 40 students in this classroom

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

elbow room; room; way (space for movement)

Meronyms (members of "seating"):

seat (furniture that is designed for sitting on)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "seating"):

circle; dress circle (a curved section or tier of seats in a hall or theater or opera house; usually the first tier above the orchestra)

orchestra (seating on the main floor in a theater)

parquet (seating on the main floor between the orchestra and the parquet circle)

parquet circle; parterre (seating at the rear of the main floor (beneath the balconies))

ringside; ringside seat (first row of seating; has an unobstructed view of a boxing or wrestling ring)

stall (seating in the forward part of the main level of a theater)

tiered seat (seating that is arranged in sloping tiers so that spectators in the back can see over the heads of those in front)

Derivation:

seat (be able to seat)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The service of ushering people to their seats

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

service (an act of help or assistance)

Derivation:

seat (show to a seat; assign a seat for)

 Context examples 

“Let me see,” said Holmes, seating himself on Staunton’s bed.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“What is your part of the country now?” I asked, seating myself near him.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“They do not want me at all,” said she, seating herself.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Seating himself with a leg overhanging the abyss on each side, and his hatchet slung upon his back, Challenger hopped his way across the trunk and was soon at the other side.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"I want you to come here;" and seating himself in an arm-chair, he intimated by a gesture that I was to approach and stand before him.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But I consented to listen, and seating myself by the fire which my odious companion had lighted, he thus began his tale.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

So he remained while the senior monks filed slowly and sedately into the chamber seating themselves upon the long oaken benches which lined the wall on either side.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Elinor drew near, but without saying a word; and seating herself on the bed, took her hand, kissed her affectionately several times, and then gave way to a burst of tears, which at first was scarcely less violent than Marianne's.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Captain Wentworth, however, came from his window, apparently not ill-disposed for conversation; but Charles Hayter soon put an end to his attempts by seating himself near the table, and taking up the newspaper; and Captain Wentworth returned to his window.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

"Take a good look at it for her sake, and then come and tell me what you have been doing with yourself all this while," said Amy, seating herself, ready for a good talk.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)