GET ABOUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does get about mean? 

• GET ABOUT (verb)
  The verb GET ABOUT has 1 sense:

1. move around; move from place to place

  Familiarity information: GET ABOUT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GET ABOUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move around; move from place to place

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

get about; get around

Context example:

How does she get around without a car?

Hypernyms (to "get about" is one way to...):

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

It is an advantage to get about in such a case without taking a mercenary into your confidence.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sometimes I would steal out at night and walk under the stars once more, with the cool breeze upon my forehead; but this I had at last to stop, for I was seen by the rustics, and rumours of a spirit at Cliffe Royal began to get about.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At other times, if a female stranger came among them, three or four of her own sex would get about her, and stare, and chatter, and grin, and smell her all over; and then turn off with gestures, that seemed to express contempt and disdain.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

She followed another carriage to Mr. Cole's door; and was pleased to see that it was Mr. Knightley's; for Mr. Knightley keeping no horses, having little spare money and a great deal of health, activity, and independence, was too apt, in Emma's opinion, to get about as he could, and not use his carriage so often as became the owner of Donwell Abbey.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)