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getaways

getaways is the plural of getaway.

Meaning of getaway

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

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Questions about getaways

What is getaways the plural of?
Getaways is the plural of getaway.

Words near getaways in the dictionary

  1. getaway cars
  2. getaway driver
  3. getaway drivers
  4. getaway man
  5. getaway men
  6. getaways
  7. getback
  8. getbacks
  9. getcha
  10. Getchell
  11. getchellite

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