Meaning

8 senses

  1. (also, figuratively)An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.

    the action of fetching

  2. An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.

    (also, figuratively, specifically)An act of fetching data.

    a fetch from a cache

  3. The object of fetching; the source of an attraction; a force, propensity, or quality which attracts.

  4. An area over which wind is blowing (over water) and generating waves.

  5. The length of such an area; the distance a wave can travel across a body of water (without obstruction).

  6. A stratagem or trick; an artifice.

    They used cunning fetches to swindle money out of the gullible.

  7. (uncountable)A game played with a dog in which a person throws an object for the dog to retrieve.

  8. (dialectal)The apparition of a living person; a person's double, the sight of which is supposedly a sign that they are fated to die soon, a doppelganger; a wraith (“a person's likeness seen just after their death; a ghost, a spectre”).

Examples

148 sentences

  1. Go and fetch Tom.

    Йди й приведи Тома. — deniko

    deGehe und hole Tom. — Esperantostern

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  2. It's far-fetched.

    Це висмоктано з пальця. — deniko

    ruЭто притянуто за уши. — marafon

    deDas ist weit hergeholt. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  3. Fetch me my hat.

    Принесіть мені мій капелюх. — hectorvk

    ruПринеси мне мою шляпу. — Hellerick

    deHol mir meinen Hut. — xtofu80

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  4. Tom is playing fetch with his dog.

    deTom spielt mit seinem Hund „Hol das Stöckchen!“. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  5. It sounds far-fetched, but it's true.

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Translations

1 languages

Origin

The verb is derived from Middle English fecchen (“to get and bring back, fetch; to come fo

The verb is derived from Middle English fecchen (“to get and bring back, fetch; to come for, get and take away; to steal; to carry away to kill; to search for; to obtain, procure”) [and other forms], from Old English feċċan, fæċċan, feccean (“to fetch, bring; to draw; to gain, take; to seek”), a variant of fetian, fatian (“to bring near, fetch; to acquire, obtain; to bring on, induce; to fetch a wife, marry”) and possibly related to Old English facian, fācian (“to acquire, obtain; to try to obtain; to get; to get to, reach”), both from Proto-Germanic *fatōną, *fatjaną (“to hold, seize; to fetch”), from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“to step, walk; to fall, stumble”).

Uncertain; the following possibilities have been suggested:

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Forms

plural: fetches
Singularfetch

uncountable

Synonyms

2 synonyms
contrivancedodge

Word family

1 related words
Derivedfetch candle

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
festoonfetafetalfeteC2fetid

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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