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Meanings of sitter in English

Catalan
lloca

A domestic hen ready to brood.

        lloca
        Portuguese
        babá
        Catalan
        cangur

        A person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home.

              babá
              Portuguese
              willem de sitter

              Dutch astronomer who calculated the size of the universe and suggested that it is expanding (1872-1934)

                    willem de sitter
                    Spanish
                    modelo de pintores

                    Subject of a portrait.

                            Related terms
                            modelo de pintores
                            Usage of sitter in English
                            1
                            He adores his children & grandchildren and is a very good baby-sitter.
                            The new yorker
                            2
                            On the wall to the sitter's left is a small plastic sign:
                            Packing for mars: the curious science of life in the void
                            3
                            I don't know how long you told the sitter to keep Ashley.
                            Table for five
                            4
                            They finished a minute ahead of pole-sitter Oliver Jarvis in a Mazda.
                            Radio NZ
                            5
                            Roisin paid the fare and rushed inside to let the baby-sitter away.
                            The Irish Times
                            6
                            Yet Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel split him and pole-sitter Hamilton on both occasions.
                            Reuters
                            7
                            All they wanted, though, was an ordained baby-sitter, like I said before.
                            Back on murder
                            8
                            I tried phoning Guy's baby-sitter, Joyce, but I wasn't getting an answer.
                            Watch them die
                            9
                            She got a sitter and went to Joe's office the next day.
                            Lone eagle
                            10
                            One absolute sitter did not even make it into the tram lines.
                            The Guardian
                            11
                            And I guess I'm still a fence-sitter when it comes to Dollhouse.
                            Wired
                            12
                            She put the baby back in his bassinet, and called the sitter.
                            Lone eagle
                            13
                            When an artist paints a portrait, he paints two-himself and the sitter.
                            Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 / Little J...
                            14
                            A fresh canvas stood upon an easel, all ready for the sitter.
                            Jacqueline — Volume 1
                            15
                            Each sitter is allowed a space upon a divan of yellow canework.
                            The Eyes of Asia
                            16
                            A chair, with attachments for confining the sitter, was a chief feature.
                            Gather, Darkness!
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                            Translations for sitter
                            Sitter through the time
                            Sitter across language varieties
                            United States of America
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                            United Kingdom
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