get

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To receive or obtain something.

   I got a letter from my old friend today.

2. 2
   verb

   To buy something.

   Can you get some milk on your way home?

3. 3
   verb

   To become or come to be in a certain state.

   It's getting dark, so we should head back.

4. 4
   verb

   To experience or be affected by something.

   I always get nervous before an exam.

5. 5
   verb

   To understand something.

   Sorry, I don't get the joke.

Multiword verbs with get

• get across Phrasal verb A1

  to communicate an idea so that another person understands it

• get ahead Phrasal verb A1

  to become more successful or improve one's position

• get around Phrasal verb A1

  to move from one place to another

• get off Phrasal verb A1

  to leave a vehicle or step down from something being ridden

• get over Prepositional verb A1

  to recover from an illness or an upsetting experience

Appears in

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 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 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 disco…

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