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getaway

getaway noun: a means of escape.

Noun

getaway (plural getaways)

  1. A means of escape.
  2. The effecting of an escape.
    • This dramatic arrival of the figure in landscape had revitalized its whole problem for him, and that on the practice of a métier going a little stale by repetition. No get away from it, Edmund, he had to have the model. And what a model - tinted up by nature herself as the perfect complement of her...1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 58
  3. (informal) A vacation or holiday, or the destination for one.
    Synonyms:
    leave

Adjective

getaway (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to an escape, as in a vehicle or plans.
    • They'd been discussing their getaway plans for weeks.

getaway meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

getaway in Tamil

தப்பியோடும், தப்பித்தல், தப்பியோடுதல், ஓய்வெடுக்கச் செல்லும் சுற்றுலா இடம்

getaway in Urdu

آغاز, فرار

getaway in Malayalam

breakout, escape, bolt for freedom
രക്ഷപ്പെടൽ, തടവുചാടൽ, ജയിൽചാട്ടം, ഓടിമറയൽ, പരിഭ്രംശം, പരിഭ്രംശനം

Examples of getaway in a sentence

  • We teetered on the fence about buying getaway tickets and missed the opportunity.
  • A: "My favorite getaway is Puerto Rico." B: "Like father, like son, I see."
  • The district attorney was able to strengthen his case against the bank robber by flipping the getaway driver.

All 13 example sentences with getaway

Synonyms of getaway

Forms of getaway

pluralgetaways
alternative formget-away

Plural of getaway: getaways

Origin of getaway

Deverbal from get away.

Words formed from getaway

Phrases with getaway

Questions about getaway

What does getaway mean?
Getaway means a means of escape.
What is getaway in Tamil?
Getaway in Tamil is தப்பியோடும், தப்பித்தல், தப்பியோடுதல். See Getaway meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is getaway?
Getaway can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of getaway?
The plural of getaway is getaways.

Words near getaway in the dictionary

  1. Getana
  2. Getans
  3. Getaria
  4. getas
  5. getatable
  6. getaway
  7. getaway car
  8. getaway cars
  9. getaway driver
  10. getaway drivers
  11. getaway man

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: getaway (page history and authors); getaway (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); getaway (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); getaway (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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