sitting
n. countablen. a period of time when you stay in one place to do a single activity, like eating a meal or reading a book.
n. a continuous period of time spent engaged in a single activity, such as a meal, a meeting, or a creative task.
I finished the entire book in one sitting.
The restaurant offers two sittings for dinner, one at six o'clock and another at eight-thirty.
The portrait was completed after only three sittings, as the artist preferred to capture the subject's likeness while the initial inspiration remained fresh.
From Middle English sittyng, sittynge, equivalent to sit + -ing. Cognate with Dutch zitting (“a sitting, session”), German Sitzung (“a sitting, session”), Swedish sittning (“a sitting, session”).
From Middle English sittinge, sittynge, variant of sittinde, sittende, sittande, from Old English sittende (“sitting”), from Proto-Germanic sitjandz (“sitting”), present participle of Proto-Germanic sitjaną (“to sit”), equivalent to sit + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian sittend (“sitting”), Dutch zittend (“sitting”), German sitzend (“sitting”), Swedish sittande (“sitting”), Icelandic sitjandi (“sitting”).
Often used in the phrase 'in one sitting' to emphasize that an activity was completed without a break.