- present participle of seat.
noun
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the act of providing with a seat or seats
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the provision of seats, as in a theatre, cinema, etc
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( as modifier )
seating arrangements
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material used for covering or making seats
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Etymology
Origin of seating
Explanation
The noun seating means the available seats in a room or area, so a theater could have seating for 100. Seating is also the action of helping people find their seats, or the specified time when people sit down. If the first seating for dinner happens at six and the second at eight, it means that the dinner will be served in two sections, with half the guests sitting down to eat at each seating. And when a sports arena has special seating for disabled fans, it means that there are seats accommodating people who use wheelchairs or are otherwise affected by a disability.
Example Sentences
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SoFi Stadium aced the physical infrastructure with working elevators, wheelchair escorts and accessible seating with clear sightlines on every level.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
The Covent Garden street where the incident unfolded, lined with stores and outdoor seating, was cordoned off with police tape for several hours.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
The airline revamped its fare structure and pretty much everything else about the business model when it switched to assigned seating.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
And some have added other luxuries, like recliner seating and dining options.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
Outside the tank’s display wall was an amphitheater with seating for several hundred.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
Pizza Hut was so popular on opening day that the doors had to be locked in between seatings, with customers let in and out a few at a time.
From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2025
There are three or four seatings each night for a blind tasting menu of 14 to 16 courses, with optional beverage pairings.
From Salon ● May 28, 2025
With three, 10-person seatings a night, the 17-course opening menu features local seafood such as geoduck and red ocean perch and catches coming from Japan.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2022
That, an Herbal Chef representative told us, is about the maximum number of diners preferred for each of the two dinner seatings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2022
Although the middle aisle was eleven feet wide and each of the side aisles four and a half feet wide, there were seatings for 1,350 people.
From Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable by John T. (John Thomson) Faris
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