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rearseat

noun

Etymology

From rear + seat.

  1. inherited from sǣte — “house”
  2. derived from *sed-✻ — “to sit”
  3. derived from *sētiją✻ — “seat”
  4. derived from sæti — “seat”
  5. inherited from sǣte
  6. inherited from sete
  7. compounded as rearseat — “rear + seat”

Definitions

  1. The back seat of a vehicle.

    • Long before the van era, manufacturers designed beds into their vehicles by folding front seatbacks into rearseat cushions.
    • Page 199: Robert B. Buchan, another VB-2 pilot, reported his rearseat man downed a Japanese fighter. Page 268: One was flown by Hall, who was shot through both legs, and the other by Swanson, with his dead rearseat man.
    • The CrewMax sacrifices a foot of bed length for a huge cabin whose rearseat legroom would make many a limousine blush.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA