Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved thesituation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.
The way in which something is positioned vis-à-vis its surroundings.
The Botanical Gardens are in a delightfulsituation on the river bank.
[…]he being naturally an underground animal by birth and breeding, thesituation 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.
The place in which something is situated; alocation.
1833, Thomas Hibbert, Robert Buist,The American Flower Garden Directory, page142:
[Hibíscus] speciòsus is the most splendid, and deserves asituation in every garden.
You take a morning paper from the top of the stack And read thesituations from the front to the back The only job that's open need a man with a knack So put it right back in the rack Jack.
A difficult or unpleasant set of circumstances; aproblem.
[…] Craterian theatre, with a full-scale advance campaign and preliminary screenings held for opinion-makers. Results and reactions will be closely studied and, if popular, the idea will be extended to othersituations.
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