MEANING
1. To place someone or something in a particular physical location.
2. To explain or understand something by placing it within a relevant context or set of relationships.
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Words that belong together
- situate near a river
- situate a building
- situated on a hill
On the page
The planners situated the school away from the main road.
The cabin is situated above the floodplain.
She situated the display where visitors would see it on arrival.
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Word forms
- Base
- situate
- Past tense
- situated
- Past participle
- situated
- Present participle
- situating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- situate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are situating
- Present perfect
- have/has situated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been situating
- Past
- situated
- Past continuous
- was/were situating
- Past perfect
- had situated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been situating
- Future
- will situate
- Future continuous
- will be situating
- Future perfect
- will have situated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been situating
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Usage notes
Primary category: academic. Forms: situate; situates; situated; situated; situating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: situates.
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