Meaning

Someone who starts, or who starts something..

Definitions by Sense

1. Someone who starts, or who starts something.
2. Something that starts something.
3. Something with which to begin; a first property, etc.
4. The first course of a meal, consisting of a small, usually savoury, dish.
5. (team sports) A player in the lineup of players that a team fields at the beginning of a game.
6. A dog that rouses game.
7. (historical, British) A short length of rope formerly used for casual chastisement in the Navy.
8. (rail transport) Ellipsis of starter signal.

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.

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.

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Use starter when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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