sitter

baby-sitter, gardien

Personne payée pour garder des enfants, des animaux ou une maison en l’absence des parents ou du propriétaire.

En anglais simple : 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?

Synonymes : babysitter, carer, caretaker

Expressions courantes : hire a sitter, pet sitter, house sitter, find a sitter

modèle, personne assise

Personne qui reste assise, notamment pendant qu’un artiste la peint ou la dessine.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : sitter for someone (She was a frequent sitter for the portrait painter.)

Synonymes : model

Expressions courantes : portrait sitter, sitter for someone, patient sitter

salon

Pièce d’un logement où l’on s’assoit ensemble pour se détendre.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : living room, sitting room, lounge

Expressions courantes : cozy sitter, front sitter, in the sitter

participant à une séance spirite

Personne assistant à une réunion pour communiquer avec les morts, sans diriger cette communication.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : participant

Expressions courantes : seance sitter, quiet sitter, sitter beside someone