Noun

Singular seat

Plural seats

seat (plural seats)

1. A place in which to sit.

   There are two hundred seats in this classroom.

2. The horizontal portion of a chair or other furniture designed for sitting.

   He sat on the arm of the chair rather than the seat which always annoyed his mother.

3. A piece of furniture made for sitting; e.g. a chair, stool or bench; any improvised place for sitting.

   She pulled the seat from under the table to allow him to sit down.

4. The part of an object or individual (usually the buttocks) directly involved in sitting.

   Instead of saying "sit down", she said "place your seat on this chair".

   The seat of the valve had become corroded.

5. The part of a piece of clothing (usually pants or trousers) covering the buttocks.

   The seat of these trousers is almost worn through.

6. A membership in an organization, particularly a representative body.

   Our neighbor has a seat at the stock exchange and in congress.

7. The location of a governing body.

   Washington D.C. is the seat of the U.S. government.

8. (certain Commonwealth countries) an electoral district, especially for a national legislature.

Derived terms

• seater/-seater
• seat of government

Seat can refer to:

A place to sit, particularly the area one sits upon (rather than other elements, like armrests), See:

• Chair
• Car seat
• Airline seat
• Saddle, a type of seat used on the backs of animals, bicycles (see bicycle seat), etc.
• Buttocks, the part of the body on which one sits

A place or office of authority:

• Chair (official), a seat of office, authority, or dignity
  • the family seat of a noble family, sometimes referred to as an ancestral seat.
  • the Cathedra of a bishop
• Legislative seat, a membership in a parliament or other legislature
• Seat (legal entity), indicating where the headquarters of the entity are located
• The capital city of an administrative region, such as:
  • County seat
  • Canton seat
  • Clan seat
• Country seat, a place in the country
• Throne, the original seat of authority from which others may be derived
• Seat (territorial-administrative unit) territorial-administrative unit in the medieval Hungarian Kingdom

Other:

• SEAT, the Spanish car manufacturer, now owned by the Volkswagen Group (AG)
• Southeast Area Transit, a bus agency in Connecticut.
• Seat Pagine Gialle, the Italian Yellow Pages group
• SEATS, Signal Extraction in ARIMA Time Series", an Econometric package (Gómez y Maravall, 1996)