sit

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to rest with your weight on your bottom, with your upper body upright

   After a long day of walking, it was good just to sit and relax.

2. 2
   verb

   to move your body into a seated position

   Please come in and sit down.

3. 3
   verb

   to be in a particular place or position

   The dishes are still sitting on the table.

4. 4
   verb

   to be a member of an official group or committee

   She currently sits on the school's standards committee.

Common collocations

• sit on Verb + preposition/particle
• sit through Verb + preposition/particle
• sit for Verb + preposition/particle
• sit in on Verb + preposition/particle

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sed- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *sédyeti Proto-Germanic *sitjaną Proto-West Germanic *sittjan Old English sittan Middle English sitten English sit From Middle English sitten, from Old English sittan, from Proto-West Germanic *sittjan, from Proto-Germanic *sitjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“sit”). Cognates Cognate with West Frisian sitte, Low German sitten, Dutch zitten, German sitzen, Swedish sitta, Norwegian Bokmål sitte, Norwegian Nynorsk sitja; and with Irish suigh, Latin sedeo, Russian сиде́ть (sidétʹ).

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