got

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɡɒt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɡɑt/
• (Boston, New England) IPA^(key): /ɡʌt/, /ɡɒt/

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• Rhymes: -ɒt

got

1. simple past tense of get

   We got the last bus home.

2. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) past participle of get

   By that time we'd got very cold.

   I've got two children.

   How many children have you got?

3. Expressing obligation.

   I can't go out tonight, I've got to study for my exams.

4. (Southern US, with to) must; have (to).

   I got to go study.

   • 1971, Carol King and Gerry Goffin, “Smackwater Jack”, Tapestry, Ode Records

     We got to ride to clean up the streets / For our wives and our daughters!

5. (Southern US, slang) have

   They got a new car.

   He got a lot of nerve.

6. (Southern US, African American Vernacular, euphemistic, slang) to be murdered

   He got got.

• (past participle of get): The second sentence literally means "At some time in the past I got (obtained) two children", but in "have got" constructions like this, where "got" is used in the sense of "obtained", the sense of obtaining is lost, becoming merely one of possessing, and the sentence is in effect just a more colloquial way of saying "I have two children". Similarly, the third sentence is just a more colloquial way of saying "How many children do you have?"
• (past participle of get): The American and archaic British usage of the verb conjugates as get-got-gotten or as get-got-got depending on the meaning (see Usage Notes on "get" for details), whereas the modern British usage of the verb has mostly lost this distinction and conjugates as get-got-got in most cases.
• (expressing obligation): "Got" is a filler word here with no obvious grammatical or semantic function. "I have to study for my exams" has the same meaning. It is often stressed in speech: "You've just got to see this."

• (must, have (to)): gotta (informal)

• GTO, OTG, TGO, tog

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔt/

From Vulgar Latin *gottus, from Latin guttus.

got m (plural gots)

1. glass (drinking glass)

• tassó
• vas

From Latin Gothus.

got m (plural gots, feminine goda)

1. Goth

• gòtic (“Gothic”)

got

1. Nominative plural form of go.

got (comparative bȩter or bäter)

1. Alternative spelling of goot

• god

From Old Dutch got, from Proto-Germanic *gudą.

got m

1. god
2. the Christian God

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• god

• Dutch: god, God
• Limburgish: gód, Gód

• “got”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “god”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

got

1. Alternative form of gutte

• Stem vowel: ô¹
  • (originally) IPA^(key): /ɣoːt/

From Old Saxon gōd, from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz.

gôt (comparative bēter, superlative best)

1. good

• Low German: god

• IPA^(key): /ɣɔt/

From Old Saxon god, from Proto-Germanic *gudą.

got m (genitive godes or gades, plural gode or gade)

1. god

From Proto-Germanic *gudą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰutós.

got m

1. god

• Middle Dutch: got
  • Dutch: god, God
  • Limburgish: gód, Gód

• “got”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Proto-Germanic *gudą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰutós. Compare Old Saxon, Old Frisian, and Old English god, Old Dutch got, Old Norse guð, Gothic 𐌲𐌿𐌸 (guþ).

got m

1. god

• Middle High German: got
  • Alemannic German: Gott
  • Central Franconian: Jott
  • German: Gott
  • Luxembourgish: Gott
  • Yiddish: גאָט‎ (got)

From Proto-Tai *koːtᴰ (“to hug; to embrace”). Cogante with Thai กอด (gɔ̀ɔt), Lao ກອດ (kǭt), Shan ၵွတ်ႇ (kòat).

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /koːt˧˥/
• Tone numbers: got⁷
• Hyphenation: got

got (old orthography got)

1. to hug; to embrace.