Meaning & use
deep seating
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Meanings
noununcountable
A style of furniture with seats that are wide from front to back, so you can sit far back with support behind your knees.
Grammar: Uncountable: talk about deep seating as a type of furniture, not as separate items (not 'two deep seatings').
Patterns
- deep seating for a patio
- a deep seating set
- made with deep seating
We chose deep seating for the porch because we like to curl up with a book.
The new deep seating makes the small balcony feel like a real lounge.
Deep seating is more comfortable for long evenings, but it takes up more space.
noununcountabletechnical
The arrangement of seats placed deep behind one another, for example in a vehicle or a hall.
Grammar: Also uncountable; use it when you mean how the seats are laid out rather than a type of sofa.
Patterns
- deep seating in a theater
- deep seating of the rows
The old bus had deep seating, with three rows packed one behind the other.
The architect's plan shows deep seating so that later rows still have a clear view.
Common combinations
- deep seating set
- They bought a deep seating set with two chairs and a low table.
- deep seating sofa
- A deep seating sofa is great for napping but hard to get out of.
- deep seating cushions
- Replace the deep seating cushions before the rainy season starts.
- patio deep seating
- Patio deep seating has become the standard choice for outdoor lounges.
- deep seating area
- The hotel added a deep seating area beside the pool.
Synonyms and how they differ
- lounge seating
- Lounge seating stresses a relaxed, lying-back position and often includes chairs that recline; deep seating simply describes the front-to-back depth.
- club seating
- Club seating is a related indoor style of low, wide armchairs, usually in a living room or hotel lobby, while deep seating is the broader term.
Opposites
Word family
- seat noun
- the part of a chair or sofa that you sit on
- seating noun
- the seats in a place, or the act of showing people to their seats
- deep-seated adjective
- strongly felt and hard to change, as in a deep-seated fear
Commonly confused: deep seating or deep-seated?
deep seating vs deep-seated
Deep-seated means firmly established, as in a deep-seated belief, and has nothing to do with furniture. Deep seating is only about the depth of seats.
Practice
Which sentence uses deep seating correctly?
Choose one answer.
'Deep seating' is an uncountable noun for a type of furniture, so it fits 'They chose deep seating for their patio'. Option 1 wrongly makes it countable, option 2 wrongly treats it as a comparative adjective, and option 4 confuses it with the idiom 'deep in thought'.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “deep seating”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.