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getting home

getting home is the present participle and gerund of get home.

Meaning of get home

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.

Questions about getting home

What is getting home the present participle and gerund of?
Getting home is the present participle and gerund of get home.

Words near getting home in the dictionary

  1. getting gray hair from
  2. getting grey hair from
  3. getting high
  4. getting hitched
  5. getting hold of
  6. getting home
  7. getting ideas
  8. getting in
  9. getting in on
  10. getting in one's way
  11. getting in someone's pants

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Adapted from Wiktionary: getting home (page history and authors); get home (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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