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fleet

fleet
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [fleet]
    • /flit/
    • /fliːt/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [fleet]
    • /flit/

Definitions of fleet word

  • noun fleet an arm of the sea; inlet. 1
  • noun fleet a creek; stream; watercourse. 1
  • noun fleet the Fleet, a former prison in London, long used for debtors. 1
  • adjective fleet swift; rapid: to be fleet of foot; a fleet horse. 1
  • verb without object fleet to move swiftly; fly. 1
  • verb without object fleet Nautical. to change position; shift. 1

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Origin of fleet

First appearance:

before 1000
One of the 6% oldest English words
before 1000; Middle English flete, Old English flēot, derivative of flēotan to float; see fleet2

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Fleet

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

fleet popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 95% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

fleet usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for fleet

noun fleet

  • armada — An armada is a large group of warships.
  • navy — the whole body of warships and auxiliaries belonging to a country or ruler.
  • squadron — a portion of a naval fleet or a detachment of warships; a subdivision of a fleet.
  • flotilla — a group of small naval vessels, especially a naval unit containing two or more squadrons.
  • formation — the act or process of forming or the state of being formed: the formation of ice.

adjective fleet

  • speedy — characterized by speed; rapid; swift; fast.
  • barreling — a cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends.
  • brisk — A brisk activity or action is done quickly and in an energetic way.
  • fast — moving or able to move, operate, function, or take effect quickly; quick; swift; rapid: a fast horse; a fast pain reliever; a fast thinker.
  • flying — making flight or passing through the air; that flies: a flying insect; an unidentified flying object.

verb fleet

  • lose no time — act without delay
  • whish — a whishing sound.
  • make time — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
  • bestir — to cause (oneself, or, rarely, another person) to become active; rouse
  • make short work of — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.

adverb fleet

  • double-quick — very quick or rapid.
  • fleetly — swift; rapid: to be fleet of foot; a fleet horse.
  • posthaste — with the greatest possible speed or promptness: to come to a friend's aid posthaste.
  • at once — If you do something at once, you do it immediately.
  • full tilt — at the full potential, speed, energy, forcefulness, etc.

Antonyms for fleet

adj fleet

  • sluggish — indisposed to action or exertion; lacking in energy; lazy; indolent: a sluggish disposition.
  • clumsy — A clumsy person moves or handles things in a careless, awkward way, often so that things are knocked over or broken.
  • slow — moving or proceeding with little or less than usual speed or velocity: a slow train.

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