Seat (disambiguation)

The English Wiktionary has a dictionary definition (meanings of a word) for: seat

Seat can mean:

A place to sit

  • Seat
  • Chair
  • Car seat
  • Infant car seat, for children in a car
  • Airline seat
  • Ejection seat, rescue seat in an aircraft
  • Jump seat, auxiliary seat in a vehicle
  • Right seat, co-pilot's seat
  • Saddle, a type of seat used on the backs of animals, bicycles (see bicycle seat), etc.
  • Buttocks, see section "Other"

A place or office of authority

This meaning derives from the Latin word situs, a place.

  • Chair (official), a seat of office, authority, or dignity
  • Legislative seat, a membership in a parliament or other legislature
  • Seat (legal entity), indicating where the headquarters of the entity are located
  • Seat of government, the building(s) or city from which a government exercises its authority
  • An administrative centre, the capital city of an administrative region, such as:
  • Country seat, a place in the country
  • Throne, the original seat of authority from which others may be derived
  • Seat (administrative division), territorial-administrative unit in the medieval Hungarian Kingdom

Other

  • Seat, euphemism for Buttocks, the part of the body on which one sits
  • SEAT, a Spanish car manufacturer, originally a state-owned company but currently owned by the Volkswagen Group
  • S.E.A.T. (Sociedad Española de Automóviles y Transportes), a company that sold the French car brand Rebour in Catalonia in the early 20th century
  • Seat (Buttermere), a fell in the Lake District, Cumbria, England
  • Southeast Area Transit, a bus agency in Connecticut
  • Single Engine Air Tanker, a type of aircraft
  • Per-seat license, a software licensing model
  • Seat, a proper name used for the star Pi Aquarii
  • Seate, surname
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