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flight

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"Trip by air"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈflaɪ̯t/Part of speech noun, verbSorted fghiltStarts with FEnds with T1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. A trip by air; also escape or the act of flying.

Word origin

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).

Used in a sentence

  • Most birds are capable of flight.
  • The migrating birds' flight took them to Africa.
  • a flight of swallows

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