getaway
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 14
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 7
Definition of getaway
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- A means of escape.
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noun
- A means of escape.
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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!”
- (informal)A vacation or holiday, or the destination for one.
adj
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(not-comparable)Pertaining to an escape, as in a vehicle or plans.
“They'd been discussing their getaway plans for weeks.”
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Etymology
Deverbal from get away.
Words you can make from getaway
55 playable · top: GATEWAY (14 pts)
Best play gateway 14 points5-letter words
1 word4-letter words
8 words3-letter words
32 words- WAY 9 pts
- WYE 9 pts
- YAW 9 pts
- YEW 9 pts
- GAY 7 pts
- GEY 7 pts
- WAG 7 pts
- YAG 7 pts
- AWA 6 pts
- AWE 6 pts
- AYE 6 pts
- TAW 6 pts
- TEW 6 pts
- TWA 6 pts
- TYE 6 pts
- WAE 6 pts
- WAT 6 pts
- WET 6 pts
- YEA 6 pts
- YET 6 pts
- AGA 4 pts
- AGE 4 pts
- GAE 4 pts
- GAT 4 pts
- GET 4 pts
- TAG 4 pts
- TEG 4 pts
- ATE 3 pts
- EAT 3 pts
- ETA 3 pts
- TAE 3 pts
- TEA 3 pts
2-letter words
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