starter

Plural

starters

1. 1.Someone who starts, or who starts something.

2. 2.Something that starts something.

3. 3.Something with which to begin; a first property, etc.

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

4. 4.The first course of a meal, consisting of a small, usually savoury, dish.

   • “Starters are the best things at restaurants,” agrees Chitra Ramaswamy, the restaurant critic for the Scottish edition of the Times, who lives in Edinburgh. […] I would never go to a restaurant and not have a starter.”

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Everyday conversation

Rare

General reading & writing

Uncommon

Academic

Rare

Literature

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Word family

• star
• start