seat

/siːt/ verb

Definition

seat yourself in/on/next to, etc › to sit somewhere: I seated myself next to the fire.

be seated › to be sitting down: The director was seated on his right. › used to politely ask a group of people to sit down: Would the people at the back please be seated.

seat 4/12/200, etc › If a building, room, or vehicle seats a particular number of people, that many people can sit in it: The new concert hall seats 1500 people.

(Definition of seat verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)