Meanings
plural getaways · alternative get-away
- The effecting of an escape.
1 more example
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!
1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 58
alternative get-away
- not comparablePertaining to an escape, as in a vehicle or plans.
They'd been discussing their getaway plans for weeks.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA vacation or holiday, or the destination for one.
More synonyms by meaning
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Deverbal from get away.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian бягство, измъкване
- бягство (bjagstvo)effecting of an escape
- измъкване (izmăkvane)effecting of an escape
German Flucht, Kurzurlaub
- Fluchteffecting of an escape
- Kurzurlaubvacation or destination
- Erholungsortvacation or destination
- Flucht-pertaining to an escape
Italian fuga, fuga
- fugameans of escape
- fugavacation or destination
Portuguese retiro
- retirovacation or destination
Spanish escapatoria, escapada
- escapatoriameans of escape
- escapadavacation or destination
- fúgidopertaining to an escape
- fugazpertaining to an escape
- de huidapertaining to an escape
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Cite this entry
getaway. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/getaway
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