seating
seating — noun
1. the chairs or other places to sit that a room, building, or vehicle has for peop
the chairs or other places to sit that a room, building, or vehicle has for people to use.
The new cinema complex has comfortable seating for over four hundred people.
collocation: comfortable seating
Zuri prefers the outdoor seating area at the café on warm Sunday mornings.
collocation: outdoor seating area
All the seating on the upper bus deck was already taken when they arrived.
Diego checked the stadium's seating chart before buying tickets for the concert.
The school installed new seating in the library after the renovation last summer.
- seats
countable alternative; refers to individual places rather than the whole set.
- chairs
narrower — usually implies moveable individual pieces of furniture.
- places to sit
more general; usable in any context.
文法句型
seating + noun (attributive)
用法筆記
Uncountable — use 'seat' (countable) when referring to one specific place to sit. 'Seating' refers to the collection or arrangement of seats as a whole.
常見錯誤
2. the way that seats are arranged for an event or the decisions about where each p
the way that seats are arranged for an event or the decisions about where each person sits — for example, who sits next to whom at a wedding dinner or in a classroom.
The wedding planner arranged the seating to mix guests from both families at each table.
collocation: arranged the seating
Padma changed the seating each month so students worked with different classmates.
The conference organisers are still finalising the seating for the awards dinner on Friday.
Open seating at the seminar meant early arrivals chose the best spots near the stage.
Before the banquet, Selim asked about the seating so he could sit near his colleague.
- seating plan
a specific diagram or list showing where each person will sit.
- seating arrangement
emphasises the organisation logic rather than the plan document.
文法句型
seating for + event
seating + noun (attributive)
用法筆記
Frequently appears in noun–noun compounds such as 'seating arrangement', 'seating plan', and 'seating chart'. Unlike sense 1, this sense focuses on the organisation of seats rather than the physical seats themselves.