flight

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of flying.
2. (countable, uncountable) An instance of flying.
3. (collective, countable, uncountable) A collective term for doves or swallows.
4. (countable, uncountable) A trip made by an aircraft, particularly one between two cities or countries, which is often planned or reserved in advance.
5. (countable, uncountable) A series of stairs between landings.
6. (countable, uncountable) A group of canal locks with a short distance between them
7. (countable, uncountable) A floor which is reached by stairs or escalators.
8. (countable, uncountable) The feathers on an arrow or dart used to help it follow an even path.
9. (countable, uncountable) A paper airplane.
10. (countable, uncountable) The movement of a spinning ball through the air, with its speed, trajectory and drift.
11. (countable, uncountable) The ballistic trajectory of an arrow or other projectile.
12. (countable, uncountable) An aerodynamic surface designed to guide such a projectile's trajectory.
13. (countable, uncountable) An air force unit.
14. (US, countable, uncountable) A numbered subclass of a given class of warship, denoting incremental modernizations to the original design.
15. (countable, uncountable) Several sample glasses of a specific wine varietal or other beverage. The pours are smaller than a full glass and the flight will generally include three to five different samples.
16. (broadly, countable, uncountable) A comparable sample of beers or other drinks.
17. (countable, uncountable) The shaped material forming the thread of a screw.
18. (countable, uncountable) An episode of imaginative thinking or dreaming.
19. (countable, uncountable) An advertising campaign of fixed length.

Adj

Fast, swift, fleet.

Verb

1. To throw the ball in such a way that it has more airtime and more spin than usual.
2. (broadly, transitive) To throw or kick something so as to send it flying with more loft or airtime than usual.

Synonyms

escape

flying

retreat

running away

run

flock

fleeing

swarm

rout

shoal

lam

elopement

trajectory

trip

aviation

squadron

herd

school

🏫

runaway

getaway

fledge

pack

flight saturation

bevy

wing

🪽

train

🚋

string

🪢

circle

⭕

air

cloud

☁️

soaring

troop

departure

range

pod

line

going away

brood

flight of steps

flight of stairs

horde

absconding

colony

exaltation

evasion

exodus

band

clamour

bike

🚲

chowder

Translations

vol

✈️

vuelo

✈️

Flug

✈️

volo

✈️

fuga

✈️

Flucht

fuite

πτήση

vlucht

✈️

fuga

✈️

fuga

vol

✈️

voo

✈️

huida

✈️

Pronounced as (IPA)

/flaɪt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: flight

Inherited from Old English: flyht

Cognate with Western Frisian: flecht

Cognate with Dutch: vlucht

Cognate with German: Flucht

Inherited from Middle English: -

In summary

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *plew-
Proto-Indo-European *plewk-der.
Proto-Germanic *fleuganą
Proto-West Germanic *fleugan
Proto-West Germanic *-þi
Proto-West Germanic *fluhti
Old English flyht
Middle English flight
English flight
From Middle English flight, from Old English flyht (“flight”), from Proto-West Germanic *fluhti (“flight”), derived from *fleuganą (“to fly”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“to fly”), enlargement of *plew- (“flow”). Analyzable as fly + -t (variant of -th).
Cognate with West Frisian flecht (“flight”), Dutch vlucht (“flight”), German Flucht (“flight”) (etymology 2).

Sentences

It was , however , still so hot from its flight through the air .

This time , however , their top flight stay lasted only one season .

Love is the falcon's flight over your sands .

It was the first Soviet production aircraft capable of supersonic speeds in level flight .

This was also the first commercial flight westward from Juneau .