1. An area that includes places where several people can sit
   "there is seating for 40 students in this classroom"; "The restaurant's outdoor seating area was popular on warm evenings";
   - seats, seating room, seating area
    
2. The service of ushering people to their seats
   "The theatre staff provided efficient seating before the performance"
    
3. A period of time in which a restaurant serves guests
   "there are two seatings every evening"

1. Show to a seat; assign a seat for
   "The host seated me next to Mrs. Smith";
   - sit, sit down
    
2. Place in or on a seat
   "the mother seated the toddler on the high chair"
    
3. Be able to seat
   "The theatre seats 2,000"
    
4. Place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position
   "there was a ceremony to seat the president of the Academy";
   - induct, invest
    
5. (cabinetwork) put a seat on a chair
   "The craftsman carefully seated the antique chair with woven cane"
    
6. (architecture) provide with seats
   "seat a concert hall"
    
7. Place or attach firmly in or on a base
   "seat the camera on the tripod"

Derived forms: seatings

Type of: accommodate, admit, elbow room, furnish, hold, instal [Brit], install, lay, offer, place, pose, position, provide, put, render, room, service, set, supply, way

Encyclopedia: Seating