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Vinony

getaway

noun

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Wiktionary

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree English get awaydeverb. English getaway Deverbal from get away.

  1. Pertaining to an escape, as in a vehicle or plans.

    “They'd been discussing their getaway plans for weeks.”

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English get awaydeverb. English getaway Deverbal from get away.

  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. A vacation or holiday, or the destination for one.