faster

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfæstɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfɑːstə/

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• Rhymes: -æstə(ɹ), -ɑːstə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: fast‧er

From fast (“quick; quickly”) +‎ -er.

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.

faster

1. comparative form of fast: more fast

From fast (“refrain from eating”) +‎ -er.

faster (plural fasters)

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

• afters, farest, freats, strafe

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

• IPA^(key): /fastər/, [ˈfasd̥ɐ]

faster c (singular definite fasteren, plural indefinite fastre)

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

• tante

• “faster” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Old Norse fǫðursystir. Cognate with Swedish faster.

faster f

1. paternal aunt

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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

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

1. a paternal aunt

faster c

1. indefinite plural of faste

faster

1. present of faste

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

• farsyster, farsøster (long forms)

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

1. a paternal aunt

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

faster f

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

• “faster” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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

faster

1. fast, firm

• Swedish: fast

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

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faster c

1. paternal aunt

• moster

• faster in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• faster in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• faster in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• festar, safter