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gotverb
must; have (to).
I got to go study.
gotverb
have
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Gotpart. pass. of get.
Solyman commended them for their valour in their evil haps, in a plot so well by them laid, more than he did the victory of others got by good fortune, not grounded upon any good reason. Richard Knolles, History of the Turks.
Let him boast
His knowledge of good lost, and evil got. John Milton, Par. Lost.A gentle persuasion in reasoning, when the first point of submission to your will is got, will most times do. John Locke.
If he behaves himself so when he depends on us for his daily bread, can any man say what he will do when he is got above the world? John Arbuthnot, History of John Bull.
Thou wert from Ætna’s burning entrails torn,
Got by fierce whirlwinds, and in thunder born. Alexander Pope.Gotpret.
Etymology: from the verb get.
Titus Lartius writes, they fought together; but Aufidius got off. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.
If you have strength Achilles’ arms to bear,
Though foul Thersites got thee, thou shalt be
Lov’d and esteem’d. John Dryden, Juvenal.These regions and this realm my wars have got;
This mournful empire is the loser’s lot. John Dryden, Innocence.When they began to reason about the means how the sea got thither, and away back again, there they were presently in the dark. John Woodward, Natural History.
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got
The term "got" is the past tense of the verb "get," which generally means to acquire, obtain, or receive something. It can also be used to indicate the state of possessing or having something. Additionally, "got" can be used informally as a colloquial way to express understanding or comprehension of a concept or idea.
Webster Dictionary
Got
of Get
Got
of Get
Got
imp. & p. p. of Get. See Get
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Got
Gotten. See under Get.
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Rank popularity for the word 'got' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #181
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Rank popularity for the word 'got' in Written Corpus Frequency: #35
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of got in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of got in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of got in a Sentence
Nikita Kucherov and Valtteri Filppula made bad decisions. I don't know what to say, nikita Kucherov and Valtteri Filppula've got to be better for the full 60, that's all it is. It's a seven-game series and Nikita Kucherov and Valtteri Filppula've been down before. Nikita Kucherov and Valtteri Filppula've been here.
Opinions are like elbows. Everybody's got them, but they only bend one way.
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him Whose
At lunch yesterday… I just made the point that if we're going to ask independent working class people to vote for us… we've actually got to do something that is good for them, we ought to be the party that is for that, and we shouldn't be the party that is defending the suits and defending the multinational corporations and defending the C-suite.
This is literally everything moves on a specific day and we have got to pray to God that we don’t have some extraordinary event happen in the market that creates high volumes.
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