flight

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Estimated CEFR level: A2 — Elementary

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Definition

  1. noun a formation of aircraft in flight
  2. noun an instance of traveling by air
  3. noun a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next

Etymology

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). Cognate with West Frisian flecht (“flight”), Dutch vlucht (“flight”), German Flucht (“flight”) (etymology 2).

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