1fetch1 (fɛtʃ
)
Definitions
verb (mainly tr)
- to go after and bring back; get ⇒
to fetch help
- to cause to come; bring or draw forth ⇒
the noise fetched him from the cellar
- (also intr) to cost or sell for (a certain price) ⇒
the table fetched six hundred pounds
- to utter (a sigh, groan, etc)
- informal to deal (a blow, slap, etc)
- (also intr) nautical to arrive at or proceed by sailing
- informal to attract ⇒
to be fetched by an idea
- (used esp as a command to dogs) to retrieve (shot game, an object thrown, etc)
- rare to draw in (a breath, gasp, etc), esp with difficulty
- See fetch and carry
noun
- the reach, stretch, etc, of a mechanism
- a trick or stratagem
- the distance in the direction of the prevailing wind that air or water can travel continuously without obstruction
Word Origin
Old English feccan; related to Old Norse feta to step, Old High German sih fazzōn to climb2fetch2 (fɛtʃ)
Definitions
noun
- the ghost or apparition of a living person
Word Origin
C18: of unknown originTranslations
- British English:
fetch
If you fetch something or someone, you go and get them from where they are.She fetched a towel from the bathroom.fɛtʃ VERB She fetched a towel from the bathroom.
- Spanish: ir a buscar v
- French:
rapporter
vt
- German:
holen
v
- Chinese: 取来 vt
- Arabic: يَجْلِبُ vt
- Portuguese: buscar vt
- Russian: приносить vt
- Croatian: donijeti v
- Czech: přinést vt přinášet
- Danish: hente v
- Dutch: halen vt
- Finnish: noutaa v
- Greek: προσκομίζω v
- Italian: andare a prendere v
- Japanese: 行って連れて来る v
- Korean: ...을 가서 가지고 오다 vt
- Norwegian: hente v
- Polish: przynieść vt przynosić
- Brazilian Portuguese: pegar vt
- European Spanish: ir a buscar v
- Swedish: hämta vt
- Thai: ไปเอามา vt
- Turkish: yakalamak vt
- Vietnamese: lấy v
Usage examples
The driver got out, opened an umbrella and came to fetch me.
, A DARKENING STAIN (2002)The owner asked Rico to go in fetch two randomly chosen items 20 times.
New Scientist (2004)The entertainment assets, known as Vivendi Universal Entertainment, are now expected to fetch more than $11-billion.
Globe and Mail (2003)Augustus House on Inveresk estate near Edinburgh was the first new house to fetch that figure in March last year.
Glasgow Herald (2001)Her voice would have cracked like a whip and the workhouse servants would have been scurrying to fetch food, clothes and soap.
, SHARPE'S PREY (2002)