Starter

Quick meaning: Starter is a noun meaning Someone who starts, or who starts something.

Meaning

Someone who starts, or who starts something.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

It's small, but it's a good starter house.

Goalkeeper Paulo Gazzaniga wasn’t a starter at Fulham.

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 […]

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.

Word Forms

• starters

Synonyms for starter

Depending on context, synonyms include appetizer, neophyte, crank, fledgling, entrant, freshman.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dispatcher, entrant, crank, newcomer, freshman, neophyte.

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