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get home

get home verb: to reach one's abode or residence.

Verb

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

  1. To reach one's abode or residence.
    • Just you wait till your father gets home.
    • And a Salisbury Cathedral chorister complained that after working late into Christmas Day, an absence of trains meant he and his brother would not be able to get home for "our proper Christmas" until the 27th.2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 30

Forms of get home

third-person singular presentgets home
present participlegetting home
pastgot home
past participlegot home
past participlegotten home

Questions about get home

What does get home mean?
Get home means to reach one's abode or residence.
What part of speech is get home?
Get home is a verb.
What is the past tense of get home?
The past tense of get home is got home.

Words near get home in the dictionary

  1. get grey hair from
  2. get happy
  3. get high
  4. get hitched
  5. get hold of
  6. get home
  7. get home bag
  8. get home bags
  9. get ideas
  10. get in
  11. get in on

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