fet
/fɛt/
fet verb: to fetch. Also the clipping of fetish.
Verb
fet (third-person singular simple present fets, present participle fetting, simple past and past participle fet)
- To fetch.
- And from the other fiftie soone the prisoner fet1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
Noun (1)
fet (plural fets)
- A piece.
- That the bottom clear,
Now lay'd with many a fet
of seed pearl,1627, Michael Drayton, The Quest of Cynthia, published 1810
- That the bottom clear,
Noun (2) capitalized: FET
FET (plural FETs)
- Initialism of field effect transistor.
Proper noun capitalized: FET
FET
- Ellipsis of FET y de las JONS, a political party in Francoist Spain.
- FET was the only legal party in Spain in the 60s.
Also used as
fet is also the clipping of fetish.
Forms of fet
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | fets |
| present participle | fetting |
| past participle | fet |
| past | fet |
| Noun | |
| plural | fets |
| plural | FETs |
Origin of fet
From Middle English fetten, feten, from Old English fetian, fatian (“to bring, fetch”), probably a conflation of Proto-West Germanic *fetan, from Proto-Germanic *fetaną (“to go”), from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“to walk, stumble, fall”); and Proto-West Germanic *fatōn, from Proto-Germanic *fatōną (“to hold, seize”), also from Proto-Indo-European *ped-. Cognate with Dutch vatten (“to catch, grab”), German fassen (“to lay hold of, seize, take, hold”). Compare also Icelandic feta (“to find one's way”). More at fetch.
Compare feat, French fait, and Italian fetta (“slice”), German Fetzen (“rag”).
Words formed from fet
Words that rhyme with fet
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- upset
- vignette
- whet
- sett
- cornet
- let
- manchette
- roulette
- yet
- cadet
- cassette
- collarette
- forget
- pet
- banquette
- met
- mignonette
- musette
- octet
- reset
- unset
- abet
- beget
- brunette
- cuvette
- debt
- dinette
- dudette
- duet
- minuet
- navette
- planchette
- quartet
- regret
- silhouette
- vinaigrette
- aid and abet
- amourette
- barrette
- bavette
- bet
- brett
- briquette
- corvette
- couchette
- enucleate
- fossette
- grisette
Questions about fet
- What does fet mean?
- Fet means to fetch.
- What part of speech is fet?
- Fet can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce fet?
- Fet is pronounced /fɛt/.
- What is the past tense of fet?
- The past tense of fet is fet.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fet (page history and authors); FET (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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