situation

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From French situation, from Medieval Latin situatio (position, situation), from situare (to locate, place), from Latin situs (a site).

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situation (plural situations)

  1. The way in which something is positioned vis-à-vis its surroundings.
    • 1908: Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
      ...he being naturally an underground animal by birth and breeding, the situation of Badger's house exactly suited him and made him feel at home; while the Rat, who slept every night in a bedroom the windows of which opened on a breezy river, naturally felt the atmosphere still and oppressive.
  2. The place in which something is situated; a location.
    • 1833: Thomas Hibbert and Robert Buist, The American Flower Garden Directory, p. 142
      [Hibíscus] speciòsus is the most splendid, and deserves a situation in every garden.
  3. Position or status with regard to conditions and circumstances.
  4. The combination of circumstances at a given moment; a state of affairs.
  5. (UK) A position of employment; a post.
    • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin 2006, p. 78:
      When he was nineteen, he suddenly left the 'Co-op' office, and got a situation in Nottingham.
  6. (informal, euphemistic) A difficult or unpleasant set of circumstances; a problem.
    • Boss, we've got a situation here. . .

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  • Source for the definitions:
    • Dictionary.com. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. [1] (accessed: March 10, 2007).
  • situation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • situation in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
  • situation at OneLook Dictionary Search

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situation f. (plural situations)

  1. situation (all meanings)

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  • IPA: /sɪtvaˈɧuːn/
  • (file)

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situation c.

  1. a situation

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