Sitter

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. One that sits, especially:
  • n. A person who cares for young children when the parents are not home; a babysitter.
  • n. A person who poses or models, as for a portrait.
  • n. A brooding hen.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Someone who sits e.g. for a portrait.
  • n. One employed to watch or tend something; the general form of babysitter, housesitter, petsitter, etc.
  • n. A broody hen.
  • n. A really easy scoring chance.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who sits; esp., one who sits for a portrait or a bust.
  • n. A bird that sits or incubates.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who or that which sits
  • n. A brooding or incubating bird.
  • n. One who takes a certain posture, position, or course in order to a particular end; specifically, one who poses to an artist for a portrait, bust, or the like.
  • n. One who watches during the night.
  • n. In cricket: An easy catch missed by a fielder.
  • n. A fielder who misses such a catch.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home
  • n. a domestic hen ready to brood
  • n. Dutch astronomer who calculated the size of the universe and suggested that it is expanding (1872-1934)
  • n. an organism (person or animal) that sits
  • n. a person who poses for a painter or sculptor
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    keeper    biddy    hen    stargazer    astronomer    uranologist    being    organism    model    poser   
    Cross Reference
    sitter up    sit    bed-sitter   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ritter    aglitter    bitter    chitter    critter    embitter    emitter    fitter    fritter    gitter