SITTER

babysitter, baby-sitter, sitter

(noun) a person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home

sitter

(noun) an organism (person or animal) that sits

Sitter, Willem de Sitter

(noun) Dutch astronomer who calculated the size of the universe and suggested that it is expanding (1872-1934)

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Proper noun

Sitter (plural Sitters)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Sitter is the 24531st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1019 individuals. Sitter is most common among White (95.78%) individuals.

Anagrams

• Strite, Tetris, streit, tirest, titers, titres, tretis, triest, triset, triste

Etymology

Noun

sitter (plural sitters)

Someone who sits, e.g. for a portrait.

One employed to watch or tend something; a babysitter, housesitter, petsitter, etc.

A participant in a séance.

A broody hen.

(football and snooker, slang) A very easy scoring chance.

Anagrams

• Strite, Tetris, streit, tirest, titers, titres, tretis, triest, triset, triste

Source: Wiktionary


Sit"ter, n.

1. One who sits; esp., one who sits for a portrait or a bust.

2. A bird that sits or incubates.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

22 September 2024

SPRINGBOARD

(noun) a beginning from which an enterprise is launched; “he uses other people’s ideas as a springboard for his own”; “reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions”; “the point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but must be the function it carries out”


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