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SITTER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A domestic hen ready to brood
Synonyms:
brood hen; broody; broody hen; setting hen; sitter
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sitter" is a kind of...):
biddy; hen (adult female chicken)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A person who poses for a painter or sculptor
Synonyms:
artist's model; sitter
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sitter" is a kind of...):
model; poser (a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor)
Derivation:
sit (assume a posture as for artistic purposes)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home
Synonyms:
baby-sitter; babysitter; sitter
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("sitter" is a kind of...):
keeper (someone in charge of other people)
Derivation:
sit (work or act as a baby-sitter)
Sense 4
Meaning:
An organism (person or animal) that sits
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("sitter" is a kind of...):
being; organism (a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently)
Domain category:
animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)
Antonym:
stander (an organism (person or animal) that stands)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Dutch astronomer who calculated the size of the universe and suggested that it is expanding (1872-1934)
Synonyms:
Sitter; Willem de Sitter
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
astronomer; stargazer; uranologist (a physicist who studies astronomy)
