getaway
English
editAlternative forms
edit- get-away (adjective)
Etymology
editNoun
editgetaway (plural getaways)
- A means of escape.
- The effecting of an escape.
- 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 58:
- 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.
Synonyms
edit- (vacation, holiday): leave, time off; see also Thesaurus:vacation
Derived terms
editTranslations
editeffecting of an escape
vacation or destination
Adjective
editgetaway (not comparable)
- Pertaining to an escape, as in a vehicle or plans.
- They'd been discussing their getaway plans for weeks.