Usually means: Assuming a seated position; resting.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word sitting:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. sitting: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sitting: Merriam-Webster
  3. sitting: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sitting: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sitting: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sitting: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sitting, sitting: Wordnik
  8. sitting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sitting: Wiktionary
  10. sitting: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sitting: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sitting: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sitting: Dictionary.com
  14. Sitting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Sitting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. sitting: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. sitting: Rhymezone
  18. Sitting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. sitting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. sitting: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. sitting: FreeDictionary.org
  22. sitting: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. sitting: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. sitting: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. sitting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. sitting: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. sitting: Legal dictionary
  4. sitting: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sitting: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Sitting: Glossary of Terms in Parapsychology
  3. sitting: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sitting: Easton Bible

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sitting: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sitting: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A period during which one is seated for a specific purpose.
noun:  A seance or other session with a medium or fortuneteller.
noun:  A special seat allotted to a seat-holder, at church, etc.
noun:  The part of the year in which judicial business is transacted.
noun:  A legislative session (in the sense of "meeting", not "period").
noun:  The incubation of eggs by a bird.
noun:  A clutch of eggs laid by a brooding bird.
noun:  Uninterrupted application to anything for a time; the period during which one continues at anything.
adjective:  Executed from a sitting position.
adjective:  Occupying a specific official or legal position; incumbent.

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