situate
Is it a Scrabble word? See definition, points, and words you can make.
Is situate a Scrabble word?
Word Games
- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of situate?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To place on or into a physical location.Examples: "The statue is situated in a corner hardly visible to the public, except through a window from an outside maintenance area situated behind the building."transitive
2. (transitive, figurative) To place or put into an intangible place or position, such as social, ethical, fictional, etc.Examples: "The mayor is situated between probable censure and possible recall."; "Other critiques have not focussed on the lexicography but rather have situated Hobson-Jobson within a larger postcolonialist critique of the British imperial project."; "In the following sections, I situate my work more explicitly within several contemporary contexts."figurativelytransitive
adj (English)
1. (now rare) Situated.Examples: "Wadley in Berkshire is situate in a vale, though not so fertile a soil as some vales afford […]."; "Pleasure situate in hill and dale."; "[…] the farm Kafferskraal No. 62 is not situate within a released area and its acquisition by the South African Native Trust is consequently not contemplated."archaic
2. (heraldry) Situated; located.Examples: "[...] graunted unto ye sayd Arthure Herrys for his Creast on the heaulme a Stagges head losengy couppe siluer & gules horned gold situate on a wreathe gold & azure mantelled gules doubled siluer which togither w ye sayd ancient Armes viz[…] In the yere of our Lord God MCCCCClxxviij […]"; "The arms of the College of Surgeons in Endinburgh, I fancy, afford the only instance of what is presumably a corpse, the blazon being: "Azure, a man (human body) fesswise between a dexter hand having an eye on the palm issuing out of a cloud downward and a castle situate on a rock proper, within a bordure or charged with several instruments peculiar to the art (sic); on a canton of the first a saltire argent surmounted of a thistle vert, crowned of the third.""
Definition source: Wiktionary