Definitions for Flight

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Spelling: [flahyt]

IPA: /flaɪt/

Flight is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 62 anagrams from letters in Flight (fghilt).

Definitions for Flight

noun

1. the act, manner, or power of flying.
2. the distance covered or the course taken by a flying object:
3. a trip by an airplane, glider, etc.
4. a scheduled trip on an airline:
5. a number of beings or things flying or passing through the air together:
6. the basic tactical unit of military air forces, consisting of two or more aircraft.
7. the act, principles, or technique of flying an airplane:
8. a journey into or through outer space:
9. swift movement, transition, or progression:
10. a soaring above or transcending ordinary bounds:
11. a series of steps between one floor or landing of a building and the next.
12. Archery. flight arrow. the distance such an arrow travels when shot.
13. an act or instance of fleeing or running away; hasty departure.

Idioms

1. put to flight, to force to flee or run away; rout:
2. take flight, to retreat; run away; flee: Also, take to flight.

verb (used without object)

1. (of wild fowls) to fly in coordinated flocks.

Origin of Flight

before 900; Middle English; Old English flyht; cognate with Dutch vlucht; akin to fly¹

Examples for Flight

Specifically, what briefing did the flight crew receive before they went to the airplane?

It seems to me an easy thing to do, so often have I myself planned our flight.

In the wee hours of Christmas morning, a flight deal was shared in an exclusive Facebook group for urban travelers.

On its 36-hour flight in May, 1909, the Zeppelin, carried only eight passengers.

The copilot on flight 8501 was Remi Emmanuel Piesel, 46, who despite his age had just 2,275 hours of flying experience.

A while ago I thought to have been as eager for flight as you are.

Even had he not been bound by his promise to Sidney, flight would have been foolish.

There was another whose spirit was equally desirous of flight—Burke!

The anti-crime cops began searching the likely path of flight.

Did the airline file a flight plan that took account of the weather en route from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore?