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SITTER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Sitter mean?
• SITTER (noun)
The noun SITTER has 5 senses:
1. Dutch astronomer who calculated the size of the universe and suggested that it is expanding (1872-1934)
2. an organism (person or animal) that sits
3. a person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home
4. a person who poses for a painter or sculptor
5. a domestic hen ready to brood
Familiarity information: SITTER used as a noun is common.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Dutch astronomer who calculated the size of the universe and suggested that it is expanding (1872-1934)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Sitter; Willem de Sitter
Instance hypernyms:
astronomer; stargazer; uranologist (a physicist who studies astronomy)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An organism (person or animal) that sits
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("sitter" is a kind of...):
being; organism (a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently)
Domain category:
animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)
Antonym:
stander (an organism (person or animal) that stands)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
baby-sitter; babysitter; sitter
Hypernyms ("sitter" is a kind of...):
keeper (someone in charge of other people)
Derivation:
sit (work or act as a baby-sitter)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A person who poses for a painter or sculptor
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
artist's model; sitter
Hypernyms ("sitter" is a kind of...):
model; poser (a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor)
Derivation:
sit (assume a posture as for artistic purposes)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A domestic hen ready to brood
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
brood hen; broody; broody hen; setting hen; sitter
Hypernyms ("sitter" is a kind of...):
Context examples
This brought them to the fireside, where the easy-chair was drawn cosily up, and the tea things stood ready to the sitter’s elbow, the very sugar in the cup.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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