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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t/, /??t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English geten, from Old Norse geta, from Proto-Germanic *getan? (compare Old English ?ietan, Old High German pigezzan (“to uphold”), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (bigitan, “to find, discover”)), from Proto-Indo-European *g?ed- (“to seize”).

Verb

get (third-person singular simple present gets, present participle getting, simple past got or (archaic) gat, past participle gotten or (England, Australia, New Zealand) got or (Geordie) getten)

1. (ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.

2. (transitive) To receive.
3. (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.

4. (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.

   • Get thee out from this land.
5. (copulative) To become, or cause oneself to become.
   • November 1, 1833, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk

     His chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.
6. (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
7. (transitive) To cause to do.
8. (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
9. (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses see individual entries get into, get over, etc.) To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).

10. (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.

11. (intransitive) To begin (doing something or to do something).

12. (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).

13. (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).

14. (intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).

15. (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it)

16. (transitive, informal) To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).

17. (informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
18. (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).

19. (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.

20. (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.

21. (transitive) To find as an answer.

22. (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.

23. (transitive) To hear completely; catch.

24. (transitive) To getter.

25. (now rare) To beget (of a father).
    • 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate 2010, page 310:

      Walter had said, dear God, Thomas, it was St fucking Felicity if I'm not mistaken, and her face was to the wall for sure the night I got you.

26. (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
27. (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
    • 1966, Dorothy Fields, If My Friends Could See Me Now (song)

      Brother, get her! Draped on a bedspread made from three kinds of fur!

    • 2007, Tom Dyckhoff, Let's move to ..., The Guardian:

      Money's pouring in somewhere, because Churchgate's got lovely new stone setts, and a cultural quarter (ooh, get her) is promised.

28. (intransitive, informal, chiefly imperative) To go, to leave; to scram.
    • 1991, Theodore Dreiser, T. D. Nostwich, Newspaper Days, University of Pennsylvania Press ?ISBN, page 663

      Get, now — get! — before I call an officer and lay a charge against ye.

    • 1952, Fredric Brown and Mack Reynolds, Me and Flapjack and the Martians

      I had a sneaking suspicion that it wasn't no flashlight and I wasn't too curious, just then, to find out what would happen if he did more than wave it at me, so I got. I went back about twenty feet or so and watched.

    • 2010, Sarah Webb, The Loving Kind, Pan Macmillan ?ISBN:

      'Go on, get. You look a state. We can't let Leo see you like that.'

    • 2012, Paul Zindel, Ladies at the Alamo, Graymalkin Media (?ISBN):

      Now go on, get! Get! Get! (she chases Joanne out the door with the hammer.)

    • 2016, April Daniels, Dreadnought, Diversion Books (?ISBN):

      " […] and then I'll switch over to the police band to know when the bacon's getting ready to stick its nose in. When I tell you to get, you get, understand?" Calamity asks as she retapes the earbud into her ear.

29. (euphemistic) To kill.

    They’re coming to get you, Barbara.

30. (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
31. (transitive) To measure.

Usage notes

• The meaning "to have" is found only in perfect tenses but has present meaning; hence "I have got" has the same meaning as "I have". (Sometimes the form had got is used to mean "had", as in "He said they couldn't find the place because they'd got the wrong address".) In speech and in all except formal writing, the word "have" is normally reduced to /v/ and spelled "-'ve" or dropped entirely (e.g. "I got a God-fearing woman, one I can easily afford", Slow Train, Bob Dylan), leading to nonstandard usages such as "he gots" = "he has", "he doesn't got" = "he doesn't have".
• Some dialects (e.g. American English dialects) use both gotten and got as past participles, while others (e.g. dialects of Southern England) use only got. In dialects that use both, got is used for the meanings "to have" and "to have to", while gotten is used for all other meanings. This allows for a distinction between "I've gotten a ticket" (I have received or obtained a ticket) vs. "I've got a ticket" (I currently have a ticket).
• "get" is one of the most common verbs in English, and the many meanings may be confusing for language learners. The following table indicates some of the different constructions found, along with the most common meanings of each:

Synonyms

• (obtain): acquire, come by, have
• (receive): receive, be given
• (fetch): bring, fetch, retrieve
• (become): become
• (cause to become): cause to be, cause to become, make
• (cause to do): make
• (arrive): arrive at, reach
• (go, leave): get out go, leave, scram
• (adopt or assume (a position or state)): go, move
• (begin): begin, commence, start
• (catch (a means of public transport)): catch, take
• (respond to (telephone, doorbell)): answer
• (be able to; have the opportunity to do): be able to
• (informal: understand): dig, follow, make sense of, understand
• (informal: be (used to form the passive)): be
• (informal: catch (a disease)): catch, come down with
• (informal: trick): con, deceive, dupe, hoodwink, trick
• (informal: perplex): confuse, perplex, stump
• (find as an answer): obtain
• (bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal)): catch, nab, nobble
• (physically assault): assault, beat, beat up
• (informal: hear): catch, hear
• (getter): getter

Antonyms

• (obtain): lose

Derived terms

Related terms

• guess

Translations

Noun

get (plural gets)

1. (dated) Offspring.
   • 1810, Thomas Hornby Morland, The genealogy of the English race horse (page 71)

     At the time when I am making these observations, one of his colts is the first favourite for the Derby; and it will be recollected, that a filly of his get won the Oaks in 1808.

   • 1999, George RR Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam 2011, page 755:

     ‘You were a high lord's get. Don't tell me Lord Eddard Stark of Winterfell never killed a man.’

2. Lineage.
3. (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
4. (informal) Something gained; an acquisition.

Etymology 2

Variant of git.

Noun

get (plural gets)

1. (Britain, regional) A git.

Etymology 3

From Hebrew ????? (g??).

Noun

get (plural gets or gittim or gitten)

1. (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.
   • 2013, Dan Cohn-Sherbok, ?George D. Chryssides, ?Dawoud El-Alami, Love, Sex and Marriage (page 143)

     In Israel, rabbinic courts can imprison men until they acquiesce and grant gets to their wives.

Alternative forms

• gett

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:get.

References

• get at OneLook Dictionary Search
• get in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• GTE, TGE, teg

Icelandic

Verb

get

1. inflection of geta:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. singular imperative

Ladino

Etymology

From Hebrew ???.

Noun

get m (Latin spelling)

1. divorce

Limburgish

Etymology

From Middle Dutch iewet, iet. The diphthong /ie?/ developed into /je/ word-initially, as it did in High German, and the onset was then enclitically hardened to ?g? (/?/). Cognate with Dutch iets, Central Franconian jet, northern Luxembourgish jett, gett, English aught.

Pronoun

get

1. something

Mauritian Creole

Verb

get

1. Medial form of gete

Middle English

Alternative forms

• geet, gete, jet, gette, geete, jete, jeete

Etymology

From a northern form of Old French jayet, jaiet, gaiet, from Latin gag?t?s, from Ancient Greek ??????? (Gagát?s).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d???t/, /d??t/

Noun

get (uncountable)

2. jet, hardened coal
3. A bead made of jet.
4. A jet-black pigment.

Descendants

• English: jet

References

• “???t, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-24.

Old Norse

Etymology

From geta.

Noun

get n

1. (rare) a guess

Declension

Verb

get

1. first-person singular present indicative of geta
2. second-person singular imperative of geta

References

• get in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse geit, from Proto-Germanic *gaits.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?t/

Noun

g?t f

1. goat

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: get

Romanian

Etymology

From French Gétes, Latin Getae, from Ancient Greek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??et/
• Rhymes: -et

Noun

get m (plural ge?i, feminine equivalent get?)

1. Get, one of the Getae, Greek name for the Dacian people

Synonyms

• dac

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish g?t, from Old Norse geit, from Proto-Germanic *gaits, from Proto-Indo-European *g?ayd- (“goat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /je?t/

Noun

get c

1. goat

Declension

Anagrams

• teg

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w?n/
• Rhymes: -?n
• Homophones: wynn, Nguyen, winne

Etymology 1

From Middle English winnen, from Old English winnan (“to labour, swink, toil, trouble oneself; resist, oppose, contradict; fight, strive, struggle, rage; endure”) (compare Old English ?ewinnan (“conquer, obtain, gain; endure, bear, suffer; be ill”)), from Proto-Germanic *winnan? (“to swink, labour, win, gain, fight”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh?- (“to strive, wish, desire, love”). Cognate with Low German winnen, Dutch winnen, German gewinnen, Norwegian Bokmål vinne, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish vinna.

Verb

win (third-person singular simple present wins, present participle winning, simple past and past participle won or (obsolete) wan)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To conquer, defeat.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book IV:

     For and we doo bataille we two wyl fyghte with one kny?t at ones / and therfore yf ye wille fyghte soo we wille be redy at what houre ye wille assigne / And yf ye wynne vs in bataille the lady shal haue her landes ageyne / ye say wel sayd sir Vwayne / therfor make yow redy so that ye be here to morne in the defence of the ladyes ryght
2. (transitive, intransitive) To reach some destination or object, despite difficulty or toil (now usually intransitive, with preposition or locative adverb).
   • c. 17th century, unknown author, The Baron of Brackley (traditional folk song)

     I well may gang out, love, but I'll never win home.
3. (transitive) To triumph or achieve victory in (a game, a war, etc.).
4. (transitive) To gain (a prize) by succeeding in competition or contest.

5. (transitive) To obtain (someone) by wooing; to make an ally or friend of (frequently with over).
   • 1589, Sir Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

     Thy virtue won me; with virtue preserve me.

   • 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act V, Scene 3

     She is a woman; therefore to be won.
6. (intransitive) To achieve victory.

7. (intransitive) To have power, coercion or control.

8. (transitive) To obtain (something desired).

9. (transitive) To cause a victory for someone.

10. (transitive, mining) To extract (ore, coal, etc.).

Conjugation

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English winn, winne, from Old English winn (“toil, labor, trouble, hardship; profit, gain; conflict, strife, war”), from Proto-Germanic *winn? (“labour, struggle, fight”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh?- (“to strive, desire, wish, love”). Cognate with German Gewinn (“profit, gain”), Dutch gewin (“profit, gain”).

Noun

win (plural wins)

1. An individual victory.

   Antonym: loss

   Our first win of the season put us in high spirits.
2. (slang) A feat carried out successfully; a victorious achievement.

   Antonym: fail

3. (obsolete) Gain; profit; income.
4. (obsolete) Wealth; goods owned.

Translations

Derived terms

Etymology 3

From Middle English wynne, winne, wunne, from Old English wynn (“joy, rapture, pleasure, delight, gladness”), from Proto-West Germanic *wunnju, from Proto-Germanic *wunj? (“joy, delight, pleasure, lust”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh?- (“to strive, wish, desire, love”).

Cognate with German Wonne (“bliss, joy, delight”), archaic Dutch wonne (“joy”), Danish ynde (“grace”), Icelandic yndi (“delight”).

Noun

win (plural wins)

1. (Scotland) Pleasure; joy; delight.

Derived terms

• worldly win

Etymology 4

From wind.

Verb

win

1. (transitive, Scotland) To dry by exposure to the wind.

References

Chuukese

Etymology

Borrowed from English win.

Noun

win

1. win
2. victory
3. prize

Verb

win

1. to win

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?n
• IPA^(key): /??n/

Verb

win

1. first-person singular present indicative of winnen
2. imperative of winnen

Kis

Noun

win

1. woman

Further reading

• Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
• Stephen Adolphe Wurm, New Guinea Area Languages and Language Study (1976)

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

win (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of wynne (“happiness”)

Etymology 2

From Old English winn, from Proto-West Germanic *winnan, from Proto-Germanic *winn?, *winnan?; akin to winnen. Reinforced by earlier iwin, from Old English ?ewinn.

Alternative forms

• winn, winne, wynne, wunne

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /win/

Noun

win (uncountable)

1. benefit, gain, profit
2. (Late Middle English) wealth, riches
3. (Early Middle English) discord, conflict, turmoil
4. (Early Middle English, rare) exertion, work

Descendants

• English: win

References

• “win, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 3 April 2020.

Etymology 3

Verb

win

1. Alternative form of winnen (“to win”)

Etymology 4

Noun

win

1. Alternative form of vine (“grapevine”)

North Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?n/

Etymology 1

From Old Frisian wind, from Proto-Germanic *windaz.

Noun

win m

1. (Mooring) wind

Etymology 2

From Old Frisian w?n, from Proto-West Germanic *w?n, from Latin v?num.

Noun

win m

1. (Mooring) wine

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *w?n, from Latin v?num.

Noun

w?n m

1. wine

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: wijn
  • Dutch: wijn
    • Afrikaans: wyn
  • Limburgish: wien

Further reading

• “w?n”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *w?n from Latin v?num.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wi?n/
• Homophone: wynn

Noun

w?n n

1. wine

Declension

Derived terms

• æppelw?n
• w?ntr?ow

Descendants

• Middle English: wyn, win, wine, wyne, wijn, vine, vyn, vyne, wyen, weyn, wynne
  • English: wine (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: wyne

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?in/

Noun

win f

1. genitive plural of wina

Noun

win n

1. genitive plural of wino

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English wind.

Noun

win

1. wind

Related terms

• winim

Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From English wind.

Noun

win

1. wind

Derived terms

• big win

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wi?n/

Noun

win

1. Soft mutation of gwin.

Mutation