CATCH ON as VERB

  1. Meaning
    • become popular
    Usage Example(s)
    • This fashion caught on in paris
    Hypernyms(s) catch on is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
  2. Meaning
    • understand, usually after some initial difficulty
    Synonym(s) Usage Example(s)
    • She didn”t know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on
    Hypernyms(s) catch on is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower