sitter
Meanings
Plural: sitters
Noun
- Dutch astronomer who calculated the size of the universe and suggested that it is expanding (1872-1934)
- an organism (person or animal) that sits
- a person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home
- a person who poses for a painter or sculptor
- a domestic hen ready to brood
- Someone who sits, e.g. for a portrait.
- One employed to watch or tend something; a babysitter, housesitter, petsitter, etc.
- A participant in a séance.
- A broody hen.
- A very easy scoring chance.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English sitter, sittere, syttare, equivalent to sit + -er.
Synonyms
artist's model, baby-sitter, babysitter, brood hen, broody, broody hen, setting hen, Willem de Sitter
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 6
sitter is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordsitter is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
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