Situation

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Situation \Sit`u*a"tion\, n. [LL. situatio: cf. F. situation.]
     1. Manner in which an object is placed; location, esp. as
        related to something else; position; locality site; as, a
        house in a pleasant situation.
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     2. Position, as regards the conditions and circumstances of
        the case.
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              A situation of the greatest ease and tranquillity.
                                                    --Rogers.
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     3. Relative position; circumstances; temporary state or
        relation at a moment of action which excites interest, as
        of persons in a dramatic scene.
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              There's situation for you! there's an heroic group!
                                                    --Sheridan.
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     4. Permanent position or employment; place; office; as, a
        situation in a store; a situation under government.
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     Syn: State; position; seat; site; station; post; place;
          office; condition; case; plight. See {State}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  situation
       n 1: the general state of things; the combination of
            circumstances at a given time; "the present
            international situation is dangerous"; "wondered how
            such a state of affairs had come about"; "eternal truths
            will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh
            meaning for every new social situation"- Franklin
            D.Roosevelt [syn: {state of affairs}]
       2: a condition or position in which you find yourself; "the
          unpleasant situation (or position) of having to choose
          between two evils"; "found herself in a very fortunate
          situation" [syn: {position}]
       3: a complex or critical or unusual difficulty; "the dangerous
          situation developed suddenly"; "that's quite a situation";
          "no human situation is simple"
       4: physical position in relation to the surroundings; "the
          sites are determined by highly specific sequences of
          nucleotides" [syn: {site}]
       5: a job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the
          treasury" [syn: {position}, {post}, {berth}, {office}, {spot},
           {billet}, {place}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  148 Moby Thesaurus words for "situation":
     Anschauung, abode, alentours, allocation, ambience, ambit, angle,
     angle of vision, appointment, area, assignment, bargain, basis,
     bearings, bench mark, berth, billet, borderlands, capacity, case,
     character, circle, circuit, circumambiencies, circumjacencies,
     circumstance, circumstances, collocation, compass, condition,
     connection, context, deployment, deposit, deposition, disposition,
     district, emplacement, employment, engagement, entourage,
     environing circumstances, environment, environs, estate, eye, fix,
     footing, frame of reference, framework, gestalt, gestation, gig,
     gravidity, habitat, hole, incumbency, jam, job, kettle of fish,
     lading, latitude and longitude, lieu, light, loading, locale,
     locality, localization, locating, location, locus, lot,
     mental outlook, milieu, modality, mode, moonlighting, neighborhood,
     office, opening, outlook, outposts, outskirts, packing, pass,
     perimeter, periphery, pickle, picture, pinpoint, pinpointing,
     place, placement, placing, plight, point, point of view, position,
     positioning, post, posting, posture, precincts, predicament,
     purlieus, putting, rank, reference system, regard, region,
     reposition, respect, second job, service, setting, side, sight,
     site, situs, slant, spot, spotting, stand, standing, standpoint,
     state, state of affairs, station, stationing, status, status quo,
     stead, storage, stowage, suburbs, surroundings, system, tenure,
     total environment, universe, vacancy, vicinage, vicinity, view,
     viewpoint, where, whereabout, whereabouts