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Definitions for Fleet

[1] the largest organized unit of naval ships grouped for tactical or other purposes.
[2] the largest organization of warships under the command of a single officer.
[3] a number of naval vessels or vessels carrying armed crew members.
[4] a large group of ships, airplanes, trucks, etc., operated by a single company or under the same ownership: He owns a fleet of cabs.
[5] a large group of airplanes, automobiles, etc., moving or operating together.
[6] swift; rapid: to be fleet of foot; a fleet horse.
[7] to move swiftly; fly.
[8] Nautical . to change position; shift.
[9] Archaic . to glide along like a stream. to fade; vanish.
[10] Obsolete . to float; drift; swim.
[11] to cause (time) to pass lightly or swiftly.
[12] Nautical . to move or change the position of. to separate the blocks of (a tackle). to lay (a rope) along a deck.
[13] an arm of the sea; inlet.
[14] a creek; stream; watercourse.
[15] the Fleet, a former prison in London, long used for debtors.
[16] a number of warships organized as a tactical unit
[17] all the warships of a nation
[18] a number of aircraft, ships, buses, etc, operating together or under the same ownership
[19] rapid in movement; swift
[20] poetic fleeting; transient
[21] (intr) to move rapidly
[22] (intr) archaic to fade away smoothly; glide
[23] (tr) nautical to change the position of (a hawser) to pass (a messenger or lead) to a hawser from a winch for hauling in to spread apart (the blocks of a tackle)
[24] (intr) obsolete to float or swim
[25] (tr) obsolete to cause (time) to pass rapidly
[26] mainly Southeast English a small coastal inlet; creek
[27] a stream that formerly ran into the Thames between Ludgate Hill and Fleet Street and is now a covered sewer
[28] Also called: Fleet Prison (formerly) a London prison, esp used for holding debtors

Words related to Fleet

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Words nearby Fleet

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Origin of Fleet

3before 900; Middle English flete, Old English flēot flowing water; cognate with German Fliess brook; (def 3) after the Fleet a stream, later covered and used as a sewer, near which the prison was located

Other words from Fleet

fleet·ly , adverb
fleet·ness , noun

Word origin for Fleet

Old English flēot flowing water; see fleet 1

Synonyms for Fleet

speedy, barreling, brisk, fast, flying, rapid, screaming, swift, winged, agile, breakneck, expeditious, expeditive, hasty, in nothing flat, like greased lightning, lively, mercurial, meteoric, nimble, nimble-footed, on the double, speedball