English Dictionary

sitter

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈsɪtə/

名詞

俗語

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.

日本語の意味

肖像画のために座っている人、すなわちポートレートの被写体として座っている人。 / 何かを監視・世話するために雇われた人（例：ベビーシッター、ハウスシッター、ペットシッターなど）。 / 降霊会に参加する人。 / 抱卵している雌鶏（母鶏）。

The sitter held the pose patiently while the artist mixed colors on the palette.

画家がパレットで色を混ぜる間、肖像画のモデルは辛抱強くポーズを保っていた。

意味（1）

Someone who sits, e.g. for a portrait.

The photograph caused a stir last week because it was shortlisted for the National Portrait Gallery’s prestigious Taylor Wessing prize, despite the rule that “all photographs must have been taken by the entrant from life and with a living sitter”. However realistic Erica may be, and to me she looks more like a sex doll than a real person, she was certainly not a living sitter.

意味（2）

One employed to watch or tend something; a babysitter, housesitter, petsitter, etc.

It's always such a pain to get a sitter on short notice.

意味（3）

A participant in a séance.

The sitters had better just take their own places, said the medium.

意味（4）

A broody hen.

意味（5）

(soccer and snooker, slang) A very easy scoring chance.

How could he miss that? It was an absolute sitter!

sitters （ plural ）