get home

verb

To reach one's abode or residence.

“Just you wait till your father gets home.”

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Meanings

verbget home (third-person singular simple present gets home, present participle getting home, simple past got home, past participle got home or gotten home)

present singular third person gets home · participle present getting home · past got home · participle past got home · participle past gotten home

  1. To reach one's abode or residence.

    Just you wait till your father gets home.

    1 more example

    And a Salisbury Cathedral chorister complained that after working late into Christmas Day, an absence of trains meant he and his brother would not be able to get home for "our proper Christmas" until the 27th.

    2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 30
Cite this entry
APA

get home. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/get%20home

MLA

“get home.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/get%20home. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “get home,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/get%20home.

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