sitter

Plural: sitters

Noun

• One who sits; a person who minds children or pets.
• 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.

Examples

• How could he miss that? It was an absolute sitter!
• It's always such a pain to get a sitter on short notice.
• The ’sitter’ tile often waits patiently for an extension like ’BABYSITTER’.

Synonyms

artist's model, baby-sitter, babysitter, brood hen, broody, broody hen, setting hen, Willem de Sitter

Antonyms

stander

Related Words

Irish setter, seater, setter, sitting duck