flight

flight is a 6-letter English word with 19 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act or flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or style of flying. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 14 · 19 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act or flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or style of flying.
2. noun. The act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape or expected evil; hasty departure.
3. noun. Lofty elevation and excursion;a mounting; a soa/ing; as, a flight of imagination, ambition, folly.
4. noun. A number of beings or things passing through the air together; especially, a flock of birds flying in company; the birds that fly or migrate together; the birds produced in one season; as, a flight of arrows.
5. noun. A series of steps or stairs from one landing to another.
6. noun. A kind of arrow for the longbow; also, the sport of shooting with it. See Shaft.
7. noun. The husk or glume of oats.
8. noun. the act of escaping physically

   "he made his escape from the mental hospital"

   "the canary escaped from its cage"

   Synonyms: escape

9. noun. a scheduled trip by plane between designated airports

   "I took the noon flight to Chicago"

10. noun. an instance of traveling by air

    "flying was still an exciting adventure for him"

    Synonyms: flying

11. noun. a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next
12. noun. passing above and beyond ordinary bounds

    "a flight of fancy"

    "flights of rhetoric"

13. noun. an air force unit smaller than a squadron
14. noun. a formation of aircraft in flight
15. noun. a flock of flying birds
16. noun. the path followed by an object moving through space

    Synonyms: trajectory

17. verb. decorate with feathers

    "fledge an arrow"

    Synonyms: fledge

18. verb. fly in a flock

    "flighting wild geese"

19. verb. shoot a bird in flight

Synonyms

escape, flying, trajectory, fledge

Common word forms

flights, flighted, flighter, flightful, flighting, flightless

Words from these letters

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