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starters

starters is the plural of starter.

Meaning of starter

Noun

starter (plural starters)

  1. Someone who starts, or who starts something.
    • The most charitable view taken of them by their colleagues was that, as late starters on the journey away from their Labour past, they had not fully understood that the SDP intended to be something new and not just a Mark II Labour Party […]1982, Hugh Stephenson, Claret and Chips: The Rise of the SDP, page 158
    1. The person who starts a race by firing a gun or waving a flag.
    2. A starting pitcher.
    3. A person employed to take new players to the first tee at suitable intervals, and to provide them with caddies and equipment.
  2. An electric motor that starts an internal combustion engine.
  3. A device that initiates the flow of high voltage electricity in a fluorescent lamp.

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Phrases with starters

Questions about starters

What is starters the plural of?
Starters is the plural of starter.

Words near starters in the dictionary

  1. starter strips
  2. starter's pistol
  3. starter's pistols
  4. starterpack
  5. starterpacks
  6. starters
  7. starters for ten
  8. startest
  9. starteth
  10. startful
  11. startfulness

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