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get ahead

get ahead verb: to advance toward success.

Verb

get ahead (third-person singular simple present gets ahead, present participle getting ahead, simple past got ahead, past participle (UK) got ahead or (US) gotten ahead)

  1. (informal) To advance toward success.

get ahead meaning in Malayalam

get ahead in Malayalam

flourish, prosper, thrive
മുന്നേറുക, അഭിവൃദ്ധിപ്പെടുക, പുരോഗമിക്കുക, ഉൽക്കർഷം ഉണ്ടാകുക, പ്രബലമായി വായുക, ഉന്നതി പ്രാപിക്കുക

Forms of get ahead

third-person singular presentgets ahead
present participlegetting ahead
pastgot ahead
past participle UKgot ahead
past participle USgotten ahead

Questions about get ahead

What does get ahead mean?
Get ahead means to advance toward success.
What is get ahead in Malayalam?
Get ahead in Malayalam is മുന്നേറുക, അഭിവൃദ്ധിപ്പെടുക, പുരോഗമിക്കുക. See Get ahead meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is get ahead?
Get ahead is a verb.
What is the past tense of get ahead?
The past tense of get ahead is got ahead.

Words near get ahead in the dictionary

  1. get above oneself
  2. get across
  3. get across the line
  4. get action
  5. get after
  6. get ahead
  7. get ahead of
  8. get ahead of oneself
  9. get ahold of
  10. get ahold of oneself
  11. get along

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Adapted from Wiktionary: get ahead (page history and authors); get ahead (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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