FETCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fetch mean? 

• FETCH (noun)
  The noun FETCH has 1 sense:

1. the action of fetching

  Familiarity information: FETCH used as a noun is very rare.

• FETCH (verb)
  The verb FETCH has 3 senses:

1. go or come after and bring or take back

2. be sold for a certain price

3. take away or remove

  Familiarity information: FETCH used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FETCH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The action of fetching

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("fetch" is a kind of...):

action (something done (usually as opposed to something said))

• FETCH (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they fetch    ... he / she / it fetches   
Past simple: fetched   
Past participle: fetched   
-ing form: fetching   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Go or come after and bring or take back

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

bring; convey; fetch; get

Context example:

The dog fetched the hat

Hypernyms (to "fetch" is one way to...):

channel; channelise; channelize; transfer; transmit; transport (send from one person or place to another)

"Fetch" entails doing...:

come; come up (move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody)

Verb group:

bring; convey; take (take something or somebody with oneself somewhere)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fetch"):

retrieve (run after, pick up, and bring to the master)

retrieve (go for and bring back)

deliver (bring to a destination, make a delivery)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Be sold for a certain price

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

bring; bring in; fetch

Context example:

The old print fetched a high price at the auction

"Fetch" entails doing...:

change hands; change owners (be transferred to another owner)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Take away or remove

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

The devil will fetch you!

Hypernyms (to "fetch" is one way to...):

bring; convey; take (take something or somebody with oneself somewhere)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

Supposing nobody should ever fetch me, how long would they consent to keep me there?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He flung it back, so that it struck the sled and bounced along until it fetched up on Bill's snowshoes.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Before another week pass Indian come back and bring rope and fetch you down.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He immediately offered to fetch her others—all that his library afforded.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I am up now; but at your peril you fetch a candle yet: wait two minutes till I get into some dry garments, if any dry there be—yes, here is my dressing-gown.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He whirled over, fetching the ground on his back and side.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

They drank whisky, they drank it neat, and I fetched more.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

And the king sent two waiting-maids and two attendants into the tower, to fetch the queen and bring her to the royal table.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

A trafficked cub can fetch $10,000, according to the BBC.

(Around 7,100 cheetahs remain, say experts, Wikinews)

“Come along, Berks, or we’ll go to fetch you.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)