SIT DOWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sit down mean? 

• SIT DOWN (verb)
  The verb SIT DOWN has 3 senses:

1. take a seat

2. show to a seat; assign a seat for

3. be seated

  Familiarity information: SIT DOWN used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIT DOWN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Take a seat

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

sit; sit down

Hypernyms (to "sit down" is one way to...):

change posture (undergo a change in bodily posture)

Verb group:

sit; sit down (be seated)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Antonym:

arise (rise to one's feet)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Show to a seat; assign a seat for

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

seat; sit; sit down

Context example:

The host seated me next to Mrs. Smith

Hypernyms (to "sit down" is one way to...):

lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)

Cause:

sit; sit down (be seated)

Verb group:

sit; sit down (be seated)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "sit down"):

reseat (show to a different seat)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP

Sense 3

Meaning:

Be seated

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

sit; sit down

"Sit down" entails doing...:

sit; sit down (take a seat)

Verb group:

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

sit; sit down (take a seat)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "sit down"):

lounge (sit or recline comfortably)

sprawl (sit or lie with one's limbs spread out)

perch; rest; roost (sit, as on a branch)

crouch; hunker; hunker down; scrunch; scrunch up; squat (sit on one's heels)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

But I want to say one word before we sit down.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Tom walked out of the room as he said it, and Edmund was left to sit down and stir the fire in thoughtful vexation.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“Pray sit down on the sofa,” said Holmes gently. “You had my note?”

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

No, really, I won't if you'll only sit down!

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She only attempted to say, "How do you do? Will you not sit down? The others will be here presently."

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Pray sit down and tell me what is the matter.

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

“I guess I’ll sit down and take the sunshine,” I heard Wolf Larsen saying.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He said, in a low voice, “I shouldn't feel it nat'ral, ma'am, to sit down in this house. I'd sooner stand.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But now, let us go and sit down at the other end of the room, and enjoy ourselves.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

There, sit down, and think over your wickedness.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)