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Definition of "situated" []

  • Having a place or location; located: a cabin nicely situated on a quiet riverbank. (adjective)
  • Supplied with money: a family that has always been well situated. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "situated" in a sentence
  • "The term situated may be used to refer to any event occurring within the physical boundaries of a situation."
  • "In a 1988 article, Donna Haraway first introduced the term situated knowledges to feminist epistemology, as a way of expressing a form of objectivity that takes seriously the social construction of knowledge and the perspectival nature of knowledge demonstrated by feminists."
  • "The very fact that no one knows with utter confidence where the wharf was situated is an indication of how much Boston, and you might say America, has changed in the past 237 years."