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.

   • 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.

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 [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “faster”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “faster”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

• festar, safter