sitter

Noun

• a domestic hen ready to brood

• a person who poses for a painter or sculptor

• a person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home

• an organism (person or animal) that sits

• Dutch astronomer who calculated the size of the universe and suggested that it is expanding (1872-1934)

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  brood hen , broody , broody hen , setting hen , artist's model , babysitter , baby-sitter , Sitter , Willem de Sitter