different between promote vs faster

English

Etymology

From Latin pr?m?tus, perfect passive participle of pr?move? (“move forward, advance”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /p???mo?t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p???m??t/
• Rhymes: -??t
• Hyphenation: pro?mote

Verb

promote (third-person singular simple present promotes, present participle promoting, simple past and past participle promoted)

2. (transitive) To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.

3. (transitive) To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell by means of advertising or publicity.

4. (transitive) To encourage, urge or incite.
5. (sports, usually in passive form) To elevate to a higher league.

6. (transitive, chemistry) To increase the activity of (a catalyst) by changing its surface structure.
7. (transitive, chess) To exchange (a pawn) for a queen or other piece when it reaches the eighth rank.

8. (intransitive, Singapore) To move on to a subsequent stage of education.

Antonyms

• (raise rank): demote, relegate
• (advocate or urge on behalf of): denigrate, oppose

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• protome, temporo-, topomer

Latin

Participle

pr?m?te

1. vocative masculine singular of pr?m?tus

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?fæst?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f??st?/
• Rhymes: -æst?(?), -??st?(?)
• Hyphenation: fast?er

Etymology 1

fast (“quick; quickly”) +? -er.

Adjective

faster

1. comparative form of fast: more fast

Adverb

faster

1. comparative form of fast: more fast

Etymology 2

fast (“refrain from eating”) +? -er.

Noun

faster (plural fasters)

1. One who fasts, or voluntarily refrains from eating.

Translations

Anagrams

• afters, farest, freats, strafe

Danish

Etymology

Equivalent to far (“father”) +? søster (“sister”), from Old Norse f?ðursystir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fast?r/, [?fasd??]

Noun

faster c (singular definite fasteren, plural indefinite fastre)

1. paternal aunt (one's father's sister)

Inflection

Hypernyms

• tante

References

• “faster” in Den Danske Ordbog

Elfdalian

Etymology

From Old Norse f?ðursystir. Cognate with Swedish faster.

Noun

faster f

1. paternal aunt

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

faster m or f

1. indefinite plural of faste

Verb

faster

1. present of faste

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse f?ðursystir f (“father's sister”), akin to Norwegian Nynorsk farsyster.

Alternative forms

• farsyster, farsøster (long forms)

Noun

faster f (definite singular fastra, indefinite plural fastrer, definite plural fastrene)

1. a paternal aunt

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

faster f

1. indefinite plural of faste
2. (non-standard since 2012) indefinite plural of fasta

References

• “faster” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse fastr, from Proto-Germanic *fastuz.

Adjective

faster

1. fast, firm

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: fast

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish faþur systir, faþersyster, from Old Norse f?ðursystir.

Pronunciation

Noun

faster c

1. paternal aunt

Declension

See also

• moster

Anagrams

• festar, safter