Getter

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A material added in small amounts during a chemical or metallurgical process to absorb impurities.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. One who gets.
  • n. A function used to retrieve the value of some property of an object, contrasted with the setter.
  • n. A material which is included in a vacuum system or device for removing gas by sorption.
  • v. To remove gas by sorption.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who gets, gains, obtains, acquires, begets, or procreates.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who gets, gains, obtains, or acquires.
  • n. One who begets or procreates.
  • n. One employed in digging, or in getting out by digging: as, a coal-getter.
  • Word Usage
    "State election officials say they won't even count names on write-in ballots unless they make up the most votes in the race or the difference in their number and the highest voter getter is less than half a percent."
    Verb Form
    gettered    gettering    getters   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    accessor    get   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    better    bettor    debtor    detter    etter    fetter    fretter    jetter    letter    netter   
    Same Context
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