Lexic.us

Definition of Sit down

1. Verb. Take a seat.

2. Verb. Show to a seat; assign a seat for. "The host seated me next to Mrs. Smith"

3. Verb. Be seated. "There sit down some children in the rocking chair"

Definition of Sit down

1. Verb. (intransitive) To assume a sitting position from a standing position. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive or reflexive) To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sit Down

sit-down sit-down money sit-down strike sit-downs sit-in sit-inner sit-inners sit-ins sit-up sit-up-and-beg

sit-ups sit around sit back sit by sit dead-red sit down (current term) sit in sit in for sit in on sit on

sit on it sit on one's hands sit on the fence sit out sit still sit through sit tight sit up sit ups sitagliptin

Literary usage of Sit down

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot (1873)
"It did not occur to her to sit down, and Will did not give a cheerful interpretation to this queenly way of receiving him ; but he went on to say what he ..."

2. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"All sitting down in him, sit down in the substance, the first and the last, that changes not, the seed that bruises the serpent's head, which was before he ..."

3. A Journal Or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, Christian by George Fox, William Penn, Margaret Askew Fell Fox (1839)
"First, They that sit down in Adam in the fall, sit down in misery, in ' death, in darkness and corruption. ' Secondly, They that sit down in the types, ..."

4. The Holy Bible by Canadian Bible Society (1851)
"Kut tlic men marvelled, saying, west, and shall sit down with Abra- | winds and the sea ; and there was 1-J Hut the children of the kingdom What manner of ..."

5. The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by American Committee of Revision (1881)
"6 And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground : and he took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and brake, and gave to his disciples to set before ..."

6. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
""sit down, SAD SOUL" SIT down, sad soul, and count The moments flying: Come — tell the sweet amount That's lost by sighing! How many smiles? — a score? ..."

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