starter
/ˈstɑɹ.tɚ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.02 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The most charitable view taken of them by their colleagues was that, as late starters on the journey away from their Labour past, they had not fully understood that the SDP intended to be something new and not just a Mark II Labour Party […]"
- "It's small, but it's a good starter house."
- "“Starters are the best things at restaurants,” agrees Chitra Ramaswamy, the restaurant critic for the Scottish edition of the Times, who lives in Edinburgh. […] I would never go to a restaurant and not have a starter.”"
- "Goalkeeper Paulo Gazzaniga wasn’t a starter at Fulham."
- "The colour-light signals admitting directly to the platforms and the inner starters (for short-length departures well up the platforms) are two-aspect, while those immediately beyond them are three-aspect, but elsewhere four-aspect signals have been installed in association with route indicators."
Etymology
From start + -er.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈstɑɹ.tɚ/
- British English: /ˈstɑː.tə(ɹ)/
Usage
- British usage