séant
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See also: seant
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Participle
[edit]séant
Adjective
[edit]séant (feminine séante, masculine plural séants, feminine plural séantes)
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]séant m (plural séants)
- (with personal pronoun) sitting position
- 1829, Victor Hugo, Le Dernier jour d'un condamné, section II:
- J’ouvris les yeux, je me dressai effaré sur mon séant.
- I opened my eyes and sat up, alarmed.
- (colloquial) bottom; behind (of a person)
Further reading
[edit]- “séant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.