Definition of Seating

1. Noun. An area that includes places where several people can sit. "There is seating for 40 students in this classroom"

Exact synonyms: Seating Area, Seating Room, Seats
Specialized synonyms: Circle, Dress Circle, Orchestra, Parquet, Parquet Circle, Parterre, Ringside, Ringside Seat, Stall, Tiered Seat
Member holonyms: Seat
Generic synonyms: Elbow Room, Room, Way
Derivative terms: Seat

2. Noun. The service of ushering people to their seats.
Generic synonyms: Service
Derivative terms: Seat

Definition of Seating

1. n. The act of providing with a seat or seats; as, the seating of an audience.

Definition of Seating

1. Noun. The provision of chairs or other places for people to sit ¹

2. Noun. A period of time in which a restaurant will seat guests ¹

3. Verb. (present participle of seat) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Seating

1. material for covering seats [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Seating

seat of government
seat only
seat sale
seatback
seatbacks
seatbelt
seatbelted
seatbeltless
seatbelts
seated
seater
seaters
seatholder
seatholders
seatin'
seating (current term)
seating area
seating capacity
seating room
seatings
seatless
seatlike
seatmate
seatmates
seatrain
seatrains
seatrout
seatrouts
seats
seats of government

Literary usage of Seating

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

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
"Crinoline and hair seating, both of which are in that Act specifically designated as hair cloth, have also cotton in their composition. ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"The highly heated gases therefore impinge more directly on that part of the bore which forms the seating for the shot and acts on it for the longest time, ..."

3. General Methods of Teaching in Elementary Schools: Including the by Samuel Chester Parker (1919)
"Varied seating and grouping of pupils for various purposes. — The second routine aspect of the classroom management concerns the seating or grouping of ..."

4. General Methods of Teaching in Elementary Schools: Including the by Samuel Chester Parker (1919)
"Varied seating and grouping of pupils for various purposes. — The second routine aspect of the classroom management concerns the seating or grouping of ..."

5. Economic and Social History of New England, 1620-1789 by William Babcock Weeden (1890)
"The practice of seating the congregation in the meetinghouse, so important in working out the social congreg»- organism of former ..."

6. Public School Orchestras and Bands by Glenn Howard Woods (1920)
"CHAPTER XIII seating PLANS FOR ORCHESTRAS AND BANDS The diagrams that follow ... In the seating plans for orchestra, as well as those for band that follow, ..."

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