seating

Chairs, benches, or other places provided for people to sit.

• The café has outdoor seating.
• There is enough seating for everyone.
• The new theatre offers more comfortable seating.

How to use it: seating for someone (The hall has seating for two hundred people.)

Similar words: seats

Common phrases: comfortable seating, outdoor seating, seating for someone

The act of helping or telling people where to sit.

• The seating of passengers has begun.
• Two ushers handled the seating of the audience.
• We discussed seating arrangements for the wedding guests.

How to use it: seating of someone (The seating of guests will begin at six.)

Common phrases: seating of guests, seating arrangements, seating the audience

One scheduled time when a group of people can enter to eat or watch a performance.

• The first seating starts at six.
• We booked the later seating for dinner.
• The restaurant offers two seatings each evening.

Similar words: sitting

Common phrases: first seating, second seating, dinner seating

Material used to make the part of a chair or other seat that people sit on.

• The chair has woven cane seating.
• We bought new seating material for the old chairs.
• The workshop specializes in replacing damaged cane seating.

Common phrases: cane seating, woven seating, seating material