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See also: FASTER and fäster

English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From fast (quick; quickly) +‎ -er.

Adjective

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faster

  1. comparative form of fast: more fast
    • 1953 September, “Restoring British Permanent Way to Prewar Standards”, in Railway Magazine, page 587:
      The renewal of track by cranes and special tracklaying machines which lift out entire 60 ft. lengths of old track and lay in pre-assembled 60 ft. lengths of new, allows the process of renewal to proceed at a considerably faster rate than possible by older methods.
    • 2025 July 9, Philip Haigh, “When the WCML closes, can the S&C take the strain?”, in RAIL, number 1039, page 22:
      Other paths can be occupied by oil trains from Grain, timber trains for Chirk, cement trains for Clitheroe, as well as engineering trains running this way to avoid the West Coast Main Line and other 60mph services squeezed off the WCML to make way for faster passenger and freight trains.

Adverb

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faster

  1. comparative form of fast: more fast

Etymology 2

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From fast (refrain from eating) +‎ -er.

Noun

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faster (plural fasters)

  1. One who fasts, or voluntarily refrains from eating.
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Danish

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Etymology

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Equivalent to far (father) +‎ søster (sister), from Old Norse fǫðursystir.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /fastər/, [ˈfasd̥ɐ]

Noun

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faster c (singular definite fasteren, plural indefinite fastre)

  1. paternal aunt (one's father's sister)

Declension

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Declension of faster
common
gender
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative faster fasteren fastre fastrene
genitive fasters fasterens fastres fastrenes

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Elfdalian

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Etymology

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From Old Norse fǫðursystir. Cognate with Swedish faster.

Noun

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faster f

  1. paternal aunt

Declension

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This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology 1

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From Old Norse fǫðursystir f (father's sister).

Noun

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faster f or m (definite singular fasteren or fastra, indefinite plural fastrer or fastre, definite plural fastrene)

  1. a paternal aunt

Etymology 2

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Noun

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faster c

  1. indefinite plural of faste

Verb

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faster

  1. present of faste

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology 1

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From Old Norse fǫðursystir f (father's sister), akin to Norwegian Nynorsk farsyster.

Alternative forms

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Noun

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faster f (definite singular fastra, indefinite plural fastrer, definite plural fastrene)

  1. a paternal aunt

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

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faster f

  1. indefinite plural of faste
  2. (non-standard since 2012) indefinite plural of fasta

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Old Swedish

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Etymology

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From Old Norse fastr, from Proto-Germanic *fastuz.

Adjective

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faster

  1. fast, firm

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Swedish: fast

Swedish

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Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia sv
Swedish kinship terms

Etymology

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From Old Swedish faþur systir, faþersyster, from Old Norse fǫðursystir.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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faster c

  1. paternal aunt

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