getaway
SubstantivAdjektivhäufig in Dialogen
A means of escape.
Substantiv
- 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 own harmonics!
- 3
umgangssprachlichA vacation or holiday, or the destination for one.
Herkunft
Deverbal from get away.
Adjektiv
- 1
Pertaining to an escape, as in a vehicle or plans.
They'd been discussing their getaway plans for weeks.
Formen
- Plural
- getaways