get
Meanings
- To obtain; to acquire.
- To receive.
- To have. See usage notes.
- To fetch, bring, take.
- To become, or cause oneself to become (often with temporary states, past participle adjectives and comparatives).
- To cause to become; to bring about.
- To cause to do.
- To cause to come or go or move.
- To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
- To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
- (with full infinitive or gerund-participle) To begin (doing something or to do something).
- To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
- Offspring, especially illegitimate.
- Lineage.
- A difficult return or block of a shot.
- Something gotten, something gained or won; an acquisition.
- A message or post on an online platform, particularly imageboards, with a unique identifier deemed special or rare, usually due to patterns in the ID.
- Synonym of git (“contemptible person”).
- A Jewish writ of divorce.
- A member of the Getae.
Pronunciation
Word forms
Etymology
From Middle English geten, from Old Norse geta, from Proto-Germanic *getaną (“to find; to acquire, attain, get, hold, receive”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- (“to find; to hold; to seize; to take”). Cognates Cognate with Yola get (“to get”), Danish gide (“to care, like”), Faroese gita (“to be able”), Icelandic geta (“to be able; to beget, father; to achieve, obtain, to guess; to mention”), Norwegian Nynorsk gjeta, gjete (“to guess; to mention”), Scanian gida (“to have the energy to, to feel up for”), gæda (“to guess”), Swedish gita, gitta (“to be able, to bring oneself to, to care”), Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐌲𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (bigitan, “to discover, find”); also Latin edera, hedera (“ivy”), praeda (“booty, pillage, plunder; prey; gain, profit”), prehendō, prēndō (“to grab, grasp, seize; to attain, reach”), Ancient Greek χανδάνω (khandánō, “to comprise, contain, hold”), Albanian gjej (“to find”).