# starter
## English
### Etymology

From start +‎ -er.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈstɑː.tə(ɹ)/
* (US) IPA: /ˈstɑɹ.tɚ/, [ˈstɑɹ.ɾɚ]
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)

### Noun

starter (plural starters)
* Someone who starts, or who starts something.
** 1982, Hugh Stephenson, Claret and Chips: The Rise of the SDP, page 158:The most charitable view taken of them by their colleagues was that, as late starters on the journey away from their Labour past, they had not fully understood that the SDP intended to be something new and not just a Mark II Labour Party […]
** The person who starts a race by firing a gun or waving a flag.
** (baseball) A starting pitcher.
** (golf) A person employed to take new players to the first tee at suitable intervals, and to provide them with caddies and equipment.
* Something that starts something.
** An electric motor that starts an internal combustion engine.
** A device that initiates the flow of high voltage electricity in a fluorescent lamp.
** A yeast culture, or a medium containing one, used to start a fermentation process.
    Hypernyms: mother, sour mash
* Something with which to begin; a first property, etc.
    It's small, but it's a good starter house.
* The first course of a meal, consisting of a small, usually savoury, dish.
    Synonyms: entrée, hors d'oeuvre, appetizer
    Coordinate terms: main, main course, dessert
* (team sports) A player in the lineup of players that a team fields at the beginning of a game.
** 2024 May 6, Sid Lowe, “Portu’s brilliant burst seals Girona’s top-four fairytale in the perfect way”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:Goalkeeper Paulo Gazzaniga wasn’t a starter at Fulham.
* A dog that rouses game.
* (historical, British) A short length of rope formerly used for casual chastisement in the Navy.
* (rail transport) A railway signal controlling the starting of trains from a station or some other location, more fully called a starter signal or starting signal.
** 1961 March, “The new Glasgow Central signalbox”, in Trains Illustrated, page 179:The colour-light signals admitting directly to the platforms and the inner starters (for short-length departures well up the platforms) are two-aspect, while those immediately beyond them are three-aspect, but elsewhere four-aspect signals have been installed in association with route indicators.

#### Derived terms

* blue starter
* bread starter
* dynostarter
* glow starter
* heart starter
* jump starter
* new starter
* non-starter
* remote starter
* self-starter
* starter battery
* starter cable
* starter castle
* starter dough
* starter home
* starter house
* starter kit
* starter marriage
* starter motor
* starter pack
* starter pistol
* starter signal
* starter strip

#### Translations
### References

* “starter”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

### Anagrams

* Tarters, ratters, restart

## Danish
### Noun

starter c (singular definite starteren, plural indefinite startere)
* starter

#### Inflection
### Noun

starter c
* indefinite plural of start

### Verb

starter
* present of starte

## Dutch
### Etymology

From starten +‎ -er.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈstɑr.tər/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: star‧ter

### Noun

starter m (plural starters, diminutive startertje n)
* starter, one who starts; in particular
** first-time home buyer
** start-up

## French
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English starter.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /staʁ.tœʁ/

#### Noun

starter m (plural starters)
* starter (person or device)

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English start.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /staʁ.te/

#### Verb

starter
* (North America) Synonym of démarrer

##### Conjugation
### Further reading

* “starter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English starter.

### Noun

starter m (invariable)
* starter (sports; car engine)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

starter m
* indefinite plural of start

### Etymology 2

From starte +‎ -er.

#### Noun

starter m (definite singular starteren, indefinite plural startere, definite plural starterne)
* a starter (person who gives a starting signal)
* a starter (starter motor)

##### Synonyms

* startmotor

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

starter
* present tense of starte

### See also

* startar (Nynorsk)

### References

* “starter” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French starter.

### Noun

starter n (plural starteri)
* starter

#### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English starter.

### Noun

starter m (Cyrillic spelling стартер)
* A device that starts an engine or a machine.
    Synonym: anlaser

## Swedish
### Noun

starter
* indefinite plural of start

### Anagrams

* rastret, stretar