To fetch means ‘to go and get something and bring it back’ or ‘to cause someone to come.’ In financial terms, fetch means ‘to sell for.’ Informally, it can mean ‘to strike or deliver a blow.’ As a noun, fetch is the act of fetching, although this is rarely used. Unrelatedly, a fetch is the apparition of a living person.
Example sentences
- The boy went to fetch some water from the well.
- Mary is very ill; someone should fetch a doctor.
- The car fetched $4,000.
- In return for the other man's insult, Neil fetched him a punch to the nose.
- The dog spent a long time over his fetch.
- Sue knew Alan was miles away, yet she saw him standing in front of her; "It must be his fetch," she thought.
