Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Obtained or acquired: usually with a qualifying adverb; won: as, ill-gotten gains; new-gotten territory; gotten battles.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- p. p. of
get .
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- verb North America, Ireland, Northern British Past participle of
get - adjective
obtained ,acquired
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Examples
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But I will say this, I am a man of my word, and never has my word gotten anybody into trouble with the law or otherwise.
’Til Death Miasha 2010
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The family's new lawyer, Michael Sussman, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that "every account we have gotten is contrary to what police have told the press, so yes, there is skepticism."
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Hope that some of the answers and advice you've gotten is of help in your particular situation.
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Hope that some of the answers and advice you've gotten is of help in your particular situation.
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I have searched everywhere and the best response I have gotten is "get an oven thermometer"
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The family's new lawyer, Michael Sussman, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that "every account we have gotten is contrary to what police have told the press, so yes, there is skepticism."
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Hope that some of the answers and advice you've gotten is of help in your particular situation.
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The family's new lawyer, Michael Sussman, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that "every account we have gotten is contrary to what police have told the press, so yes, there is skepticism."
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Hope that some of the answers and advice you've gotten is of help in your particular situation.
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The family's new lawyer, Michael Sussman, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that "every account we have gotten is contrary to what police have told the press, so yes, there is skepticism."
artistx commented on the word gotten
It is strange how this is used in the US but in the UK it is archaic .
April 19, 2007
uselessness commented on the word gotten
That is strange. I've never gotten why that is.
April 19, 2007
jennarenn commented on the word gotten
What would they say in the UK?
"We had just gotten there when...."
April 20, 2007
uselessness commented on the word gotten
I'm guessing they'd probably go with arrived or shown up...?
April 20, 2007
frindley commented on the word gotten
Australians are taught to regard this as "wrong" or "ungrammatical" or as an informal/slangy US usage. As a result relatively few realise that (a) it is acceptable and normal in the US and that (b) it is actually very old. ’Tis ironic given that the word parallels with a whole lot of other words that we do use, such as "driven" and "written", not to mention "shown".
I'm quite fond of "gotten", but to give the Antipodean response to jennarenn's question, Aussies would most likely eschew the get verb altogether (another legacy of the education system) and say:
"We had just arrived when..."
March 30, 2008
yarb commented on the word gotten
Re: UK - the perfect participle used in the UK is simply got. E.g. "We had just got there when...", "I had just got up when..."
Gotten still sounds odd to my ear but I do like it.
October 3, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word gotten
Oh man. This brings back some memories. Frindley, I got crap marks on an English paper in Australia for using "gotten," which my teacher (who later became a pretty good friend!) insisted was completely ungrammatical and did not exist as a legitimate word. She had genuinely never heard it. I was stunned, because it's very common in the United States, and I'd seen it in all kinds of (even formal) writing.
I'm so glad this really is a cultural difference and I didn't just dream the whole episode.
October 3, 2008
alexz commented on the word gotten
Gotten? they complain about 'gotten'? Google's got gotten goin back to 1492 's library of congress, but it really wan't 'America' as in the USA so that date is suspect. I got Gotten being used by the house of lords http://goo.gl/XuEo2
January 9, 2013