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got¹

  • /ɡɒt/ Northern England, UK
  • /ɡɔt/ British, Scotland, Southern
  • /ɡɑt/ Canada, US
  • [ɡaʔ] Canada, US
  • /ɡʌt/ Boston, Canada, New England
  • /ɡɒt/ Boston, Canada, New England
  • /ɡɒt/ Canada, US
  • /ɡɔt/ Australia
  • /ɡɒt/ New Zealand
  • [ɡɔ̟t] ~ [ɡɞ̠t] New Zealand

Rhymes with -ɒt

verb got · gots · had

  1. no past participle, no present participle Expressing obligation; used with have. I can’t go out tonight: I’ve got to study for my exams.
  2. colloquial, no past participle, no present participle, with to Must; have/has (to). I got to go study.
  3. colloquial, no past participle, no present participle, nonstandard, regional Have/has. They got a new car.

verb

  1. past simple past of get We got the last bus home.
  2. participle, past past participle of get By that time we’d got very cold.
  3. past simple past of git

Similar: gotta

got²

  • /ɡɒt/ Northern England, UK
  • /ɡɔt/ British, Scotland, Southern
  • /ɡɑt/ Canada, US
  • [ɡaʔ] Canada, US
  • /ɡʌt/ Boston, Canada, New England
  • /ɡɒt/ Boston, Canada, New England
  • /ɡɒt/ Canada, US
  • /ɡɔt/ Australia
  • /ɡɒt/ New Zealand
  • [ɡɔ̟t] ~ [ɡɞ̠t] New Zealand

Rhymes with -ɒt

Where it comes from

Analogous to Chinese 有, such as Hokkien 有 (ū), Cantonese 有 (jau⁵), Mandarin 有 (yǒu). Sense 1 is also comparable to Malay ada.

verb

  1. Manglish, Singlish, invariable Have; there is (indicates the possession or existence of something). You got problem is it?
  2. Singlish, auxiliary, invariable Marks the completive or experiential aspect. You got shower?

    Similar: ever

  3. Singlish, auxiliary, invariable Used as a marker of realis modality. I got go Taiwan next year.
  4. Singlish, auxiliary, invariable Used to emphasize that an action has been done. I got tell them just now.
  5. Singlish, auxiliary, invariable Marks the habitual aspect in the present or past tense. I got cook meals for them.

GoT³

proper noun GOT · Got

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Game of Thrones

GOT⁴

noun GOTs

  1. abbreviation, countable, uncountable Abbreviation of glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase
  2. abbreviation, countable, uncountable Abbreviation of geranyl-pyrophosphate-olivetolic acid geranyltransferase or geranyl-diphosphate:olivetolate geranyltransferase.
  3. alternative, countable, uncountable Alternative form of GoT (“Game of Thrones”).

    Similar: AST, AspAT, ASAT, AAT

  4. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of global offset table

proper noun

  1. alternative Alternative form of GoT (“Game of Thrones”).

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: went, ran, took, broke, blew, gave, became, began, came, mistook, did, threw, knew, throwed, stay, gone

verb

Similar: gotta

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@misc{got_2026,
  title = {got},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/got},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}