situated

1. 1
   adjective

   Placed in a particular position or location.

   The cottage is situated at the edge of a small village.

   Several factories are situated along the riverbank.

   Similarpositioned, set

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of situate.

   The architects situated the building to capture the morning light.

   Early settlers situated their homes near a source of fresh water.

   Note

   A regular -ed form of a transitive verb, so it always has an object to account for: builders situated the house, or, in the passive, the house was situated on a hill. That passive is where it shades into the plain "located" adjective. The verb can also be figurative, placing a character or an argument in a social or ethical position. The bare form situate once served as an adjective itself, a use now archaic.

3. 3
   adjective

   Having a supply of money or other means of support.

   Following the sale of the business, he found himself very comfortably situated.

   The widow was left well situated, with enough income to travel as she pleased.

4. 4
   adjective

   Embedded or rooted within a particular culture or social setting.

   The researcher argued that all knowledge is situated within particular social contexts.

   Gender roles, she noted, are firmly situated in centuries of local custom.

   Similarembedded, rooted, grounded, anchored

   Note

   Sociology borrows the everyday language of place and turns it on ideas. To call knowledge or a social role situated is to insist that it cannot be understood apart from the culture that produced it. The word usually follows a verb such as be and takes in or within. The setting it names is social rather than physical, which is the shift away from the locational meaning, where the setting is a spot on a map.

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