sitter

Someone paid to look after children, pets, or a home while the owner or parent is away.

• We need a sitter tonight.
• The pet sitter fed our cats while we were away.
• Have you booked a sitter for Saturday?

Similar words: babysitter, carer, caretaker

Common phrases: hire a sitter, pet sitter, house sitter, find a sitter

A person who sits, especially while an artist paints or draws them.

• The sitter remained still.
• The artist asked her sitter to turn his head.
• Several sitters posed for the photographer that morning.

How to use it: sitter for someone (She was a frequent sitter for the portrait painter.)

Similar words: model

Common phrases: portrait sitter, sitter for someone, patient sitter

A room in a home where people sit together and relax.

• We had tea in the sitter.
• Their small sitter had two armchairs and a fireplace.
• The front sitter overlooked the garden.

Similar words: living room, sitting room, lounge

Common phrases: cozy sitter, front sitter, in the sitter

Someone attending a meeting to contact the dead, who does not lead the contact.

• Each sitter joined the circle.
• The medium asked every sitter to remain quiet.
• One sitter believed the message came from her grandmother.

Similar words: participant

Common phrases: seance sitter, quiet sitter, sitter beside someone