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語源

From 中期英語 situacioun, situacion, from Middle French situation, from Medieval Latin situatio (“position, situation”), from situare (“to locate, place”), from Latin situs (“a site”). By surface analysis, situate +‎ -ion.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: sĭt-yo͞o-ā'shən, IPA: /ˌsɪt.juːˈeɪ.ʃən/, [ˌsɪt.juːˈeɪ.ʃn̩], /ˌsɪt.juˈeɪ.ʃən/, [ˌsɪt.juˈeɪ.ʃn̩]
• (General American, Canada) enPR: sĭch-o͞o-ā'shən, IPA: /ˌsɪ.t͡ʃuˈ(w)eɪ.ʃən/, [ˌsɪ.t͡ʃuˈeɪ.ʃn̩]
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˌsɪt.jʉːˈæɪ.ʃən/, [ˌsɪt.jʉːˈæɪ.ʃn̩]
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˌsət.jʉːˈæɪ.ʃən/, [ˌsət.jʉːˈæɪ.ʃn̩]
• (Indic) IPA: /sɪ.tʃʊˈʋe.ʃən/, /sɪ.ʈ(j)ʊˈʋe.ʃən/
• 韻: -eɪʃən

名詞

situation (plural situations or (nonstandard, humorous) situatia)

1. The combination of circumstances at a given moment; a state of affairs.

   The United States is in an awkward situation with debt default looming.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation 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.

   • 2026 April 22, Jillian Sanders, “The Danger of Surrendering Your Financial Independence in a Relationship”, in TIME‎, archived from the original on 22 April 2026:

     By 29, my financial situation wasn’t just disorganized, it was untenable. I didn’t have enough money to cover a single unexpected expense, and my credit card balance wasn’t going down; the interest was outpacing me.

2. The way in which something is positioned vis-à-vis its surroundings.

   The Botanical Gardens are in a delightful situation on the river bank.

   • 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:

     […] he being naturally an underground animal by birth and breeding, the situation 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.

3. The place in which something is situated; a location.
   • 1801, Timothy Alden, The Glory of America. A Century Sermon, Delivered at the South Church, in Portsmouth, Newhampshire ... Together with ... Historical Notes, and an Appendix, Containing an Account of Newspapers Printed in the State, page 37:

     […] one of the most pleasant situations in America. With the exception of one melancholy season, no town in the union, of its size, has had a greater share of the inestimable blessing of health.

   • 1833, Thomas Hibbert, Robert Buist, The American Flower Garden Directory, page 142:

     [Hibíscus] speciòsus is the most splendid, and deserves a situation in every garden.

   • 1848, Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, page 37:

     I described the situation as well as I could, and was entering upon an explanation of the various roads, lanes, and fields to be traversed in order to reach it, the goings straight on, and turnings to the right, and the left […]

4. Position or status with regard to conditions and circumstances.
5. (UK) A position of employment; a post.
   • 1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol:

     ‘Let me hear another sound from you,’ said Scrooge, ‘and you’ll keep your Christmas by losing your situation!

   • 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Chapter 3”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:

     When he was nineteen, he suddenly left the 'Co-op' office, and got a situation in Nottingham.

   • 1946, Vaughn Horton, Denver Darling, Milt Gabler, Choo Choo Ch'Boogie:

     You take a morning paper from the top of the stack
     And read the situations 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.

6. A difficult or unpleasant set of circumstances; a problem.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:difficult situation

   Boss, we've got a situation here…

7. (US, film industry) An individual movie theater.
   • 1950, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means, Revenue Revision of 1950: Hearings Before the Committee, page 1805:

     This survey includes all key situations (including Paramount Gulf Theaters) as well as suburban runs and small-town situations.

   • 1960, Motion Picture Herald, volumes 218-219, page 14:

     […] 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 other situations.

8. (slang) An outfit, garment, or look.

   She is working some sort of amazing burgundy chiffon situation with gold piping.

同意語

• (combination of circumstances): condition, set up; see also Thesaurus:state

派生語

関連する語

• site
• situate
• situated

参考

• situation comedy, sitcom

参照

• Source for the definitions:
  • Dictionary.com. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. [2] (accessed: March 10, 2007).
• “situation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “situation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “situation”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• titanious