SEATS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does seats mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEATS (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 ("seats" is a kind of...):

elbow room; room; way (space for movement)

Meronyms (members of "seats"):

seat (furniture that is designed for sitting on)

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

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)

 Context examples 

“Get the cards, Hump,” Wolf Larsen ordered, as they took seats at the table.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

We took our seats in silence; and so she sat beside me for a long time, holding my hand.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"She told us such things! She knows all about us!" and they sank breathless into the various seats the gentlemen hastened to bring them.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The front seat of a car, forward cars of a train, upper deck on a boat or wing seats in a plane may give you a smoother ride.

(Motion Sickness, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

“That should be helpful, Watson,” he remarked as we took our seats in the Woolwich train.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“There’s a man whose life might help you to trim your own course,” said my father, as we took our seats at a vacant table.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Of course they bumped their heads smartly together, saw stars, and both came up flushed and laughing, without the ball, to resume their seats, wishing they had not left them.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He reads the Agricultural Reports, and some other books that lay in one of the window seats—but he reads all them to himself.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Ford and Alleyne took their seats between Aylward and Black Simon, without their entrance checking in any degree the hubbub which was going on.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There are walks, with seats beside them, through the churchyard; and people go and sit there all day long looking at the beautiful view and enjoying the breeze.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)