Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person sitting next to another on a conveyance such as an airplane.
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- noun One who shares a
seat (such as a bench or other surface that seats more than one). - noun One who sits next to another.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The answer, according to my seatmate, is that “they did” — until Hugo swept through and left the burgeoning tropical retirement community without basic services for months on end.
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“I don’t care if my seatmate is 23 or 53, I want somebody who understands the complexities of working in Olympia,” she said.
Joe Fitzgibbon: Young Technocrat Has Eyes on Olympia « PubliCola 2010
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Directed by Amy Redford - yes, daughter of Sundance founder Robert - the film also features a menage a trois, which the large man sitting behind me loudly whispered to his seatmate was the best part of the movie.
Michelle Kung: Sundance Saturday: Screenings, Soirees, and Lots of Sir Ben Kingsley 2008
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My seatmate is a youngish widow with one young son.
A Silly Poor Gospel Peggy Senger Parsons 2010
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My seatmate was a 20-year-old Mormon missionary on his way home from his two-year mission in Guatemala.
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First for failing to recognize one of the league’s oldest and most prominent owners, and second for shooting off his mouth and explaining his hoops sabermetrics as though his seatmate were an optometrist from Reseda.
Foul Lines Jack McCallum 2006
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First for failing to recognize one of the league’s oldest and most prominent owners, and second for shooting off his mouth and explaining his hoops sabermetrics as though his seatmate were an optometrist from Reseda.
Foul Lines Jack McCallum 2006
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They're outrageously decorated, inconceivably crowded and your seatmate might be a rooster, but they're a must to get a first-hand sense of the culture.)
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They're outrageously decorated, inconceivably crowded and your seatmate might be a rooster, but they're a must to get a first-hand sense of the culture.)
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They're outrageously decorated, inconceivably crowded and your seatmate might be a rooster, but they're a must to get a first-hand sense of the culture.)
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