get
get Lexical Profile
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• verb
To reach or enter into a specified state, condition, or quality; to become.
"The weather tends to get much colder once the sun goes down in the desert."
To come to have or hold something; to receive, obtain, or acquire by effort or as a gift.
"She worked hard all semester to get a scholarship for her graduate studies."
To go to and bring back a person or thing; to fetch, or to arrive at a destination.
"Let me get my umbrella from the hallway before we walk to the station."
To grasp the meaning, intention, or significance of something; to understand or hear clearly.
"I didn't quite get the point the lecturer was making about quantum entanglement."
To cause, persuade, or induce someone or something to do something or be treated in a specified way.
"We finally managed to get the printer working again after updating the software."
• noun
A difficult return of a shot or ball that seemed almost impossible to reach in racket sports or other games; also, a valuable acquisition or recruit.
"Securing the keynote speaker was a major get for the conference organizers."
A formal document of divorce under Jewish religious law, presented by a husband to his wife to dissolve their marriage.
"Under orthodox religious tradition, a woman cannot remarry within the faith until her former husband grants her a get."
The offspring of an animal, especially the progeny sired by a prized male breeding animal such as a stallion or bull.
"The champion stallion's get consistently performed well at the national equestrian trials."
Word Nuance & Usage
In American English, the past participle is typically 'gotten' when indicating a process of obtaining or becoming (e.g., 'have gotten better'), whereas 'got' is used in construction with 'have' to denote possession or obligation ('have got a car'); in British English, 'got' is standard for both.
• Rhymes for get
Word Origin & Etymology
Middle English geten, borrowed from Old Norse geta ('to obtain, reach, beget, guess'), from Proto-Germanic *getaną, ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *ghend- ('to seize, take'). The Jewish legal noun sense is borrowed separately from Hebrew gēṭ, of Aramaic and ultimately Akkadian origin (giṭṭu, 'document, tablet').