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🚌 To board (transport) 📈 To make progress 🤝 To be friendly 📺 To appear (media) 🚴 To climb onto 👴 To age ⏰ To become late
to get on

to get on

136 2.0
Have a friendly relationship with someone
  • phrasal verb
  • /ɡɛt ɑn/
  • UK
translation icon : llevarse bien con
  • Tell us how you get on.
  • get on well

Does everyone still get on in the cast?

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Examples

  • And how did you get on over there with Mum?

    All of Us Strangers (2023)

  • You and her were getting on so well at the wedding.

    Material (2012)

  • Does everyone still get on in the cast?

    Saving Grace

  • But yeah, like just get on, love each other.

    High Performance

  • So, how did you get on with the summer reading list?

    Saltburn (2023)

  • You get on with the grunt work - and I'll make myself some coffee.

    Hellraiser (1987)

  • The young people got on well together; Mpho was carried off to parties with these youngsters.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • This evening Nala and Red didn't get on so well.

  • You're sick to death of hanging out with Jared, and I know Samantha gets on your nerves.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • Despite their differences, Sarah and Emily always get on well and support one another.

Synonyms

to get along
vsto get on
  • US
529 1.9

Have a friendly relationship with someone

has the same meaning but often appears with an extra following word
to get along with
vsto get on
  • US
119 2.0

Have a friendly relationship with someone

has the same meaning but omits that following word
to get on with
vsto get on
  • UK
15 2.7

Have a friendly relationship with someone

has the same meaning but omits that following word

Antonyms

to dislike
204 1.0

To not like someone or something strongly

to fall out
15 3.6

To stop being friendly with someone after an argument

How Friendly

best friend
940 1.0
friendly
773 1.0
to get on
  • UK
136 2.0
civil
585 3.9

Surface Forms

get on infinitive
got on past
gotten on past participle
getting on present participle
gets on third person singular

Morphology

get + on

The meaning 'to board' is directly compositional from 'get' (to move/arrive/enter) plus the locative/onto sense of 'on', so a learner who knows both words can infer entering or boarding a vehicle. This verb+particle pattern is frequent in English and has clear parallels in other languages, making it readily understandable at B1.

Etymology

Get on (to have a friendly or harmonious relationship) may come from the picture of two people get on the same boat or path and move forward together. If you both 'get on' the trip without fighting, you are on the same side, so it means 'to be friendly'.