Sitter
['sɪtə] or ['sɪtɚ]
Definition
(noun.) an organism (person or animal) that sits.
(noun.) Dutch astronomer who calculated the size of the universe and suggested that it is expanding (1872-1934).
Edited by Caleb--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who sits; esp., one who sits for a portrait or a bust.
(n.) A bird that sits or incubates.
Checker: Lorenzo
Examples
- This roused the lonely sitter, who got up, released the bird, and went to the door. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The sitter was so posed that the light from a lamp threw the profile of his face in sharp shadow against a white screen. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In the large wainscoted parlor too there were constantly pairs of eyes on the watch, and own relatives eager to be sitters-up. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- A four, said the Jack, and two sitters. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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