Definitions for starter

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starter start·er

Spelling: [stahr-ter]

IPA: /ˈstɑr tər/

Starter is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 161 anagrams from letters in starter (aerrstt).

Definitions for starter

noun

1. a person or thing that starts.
2. a person who gives the signal to begin, as for a race, the running of a train, bus, elevator, etc.
3. a device that starts an internal-combustion engine without a need for cranking by hand.
4. a person or thing that starts in a race or contest:
5. a culture of bacteria used to start a particular fermentation, as in the manufacture of cheese, buttermilk, sour cream, etc.
6. Cookery. sourdough (def 1).
7. Slang. a shill, as at a gaming table in a casino.
8. Cribbage. the card turned face up on the stack before the play.

Idioms

1. for starters, Informal. as the first step or part; initially; first:

adjective

1. constituting a basis or beginning:

Origin of starter

First recorded in 1530-40; start + -er¹

Examples for starter

What could be more noble than the start and the starter of Christianity?

I was talking with Benedict Cumberbatch last week about Hawking and starter for 10.

She was fussing with the starter by this time, but she smiled up at him and shook her head.

I came here with a movie, starter for 10 [2006], because Tom Hanks produced it and his company brought us out here.

Opened an account in my name, and fatted it up good and sweet, as a starter.

The starter made answer with a smile of good-humored tolerance.

Here's a starter figure, though: the CBO expects Obamacare to reduce labor force participation by about 800,000.

For a starter, then, takin' your say-so for it, you're a Southern man?'

Paul is an author herself with three books, including Parenting, Inc. and The starter Marriage and the Future of Matrimony.

They got a young big name quarterback who wants to be the starter.