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fleet

17 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. 1) fleet (verb)
  2. 2) fleet (noun)
  3. 3) fleet (adjective)
  4. fleet admiral (noun)
  5. Fleet-book evidence (noun)
  6. fleet-foot (adjective)
  7. fleet-footed (adjective)
  8. fleet in being
  9. fleet insurance (noun)
  10. Fleet marriage (noun)
  11. Fleet parson (noun)
  12. Fleet Street (noun)
  13. admiral of the fleet
  14. air fleet (noun)
  15. captain of the fleet
  16. mosquito fleet (noun)
  17. mothball fleet (noun)

1fleet

verb \ˈflēt\

Definition of FLEET

intransitive verb
1
obsolete : drift
2
a archaic : flow b : to fade away : vanish
3
[3fleet] : to fly swiftly
transitive verb
: to cause (time) to pass usually quickly or imperceptibly

Origin of FLEET

Middle English fleten, from Old English flēotan; akin to Old High German fliozzan to float, Old English flōwan to flow
First Known Use: before 12th century

Rhymes with FLEET

beat, beet, bleat, cheat, cleat, Crete, deet, eat, feat, Geat, gleet, greet, heat, lied, meat, meet, mete, neat, peat, pleat, seat, sheet, skeet, sleet, street, suite, sweet, teat, treat, tweet, weet, wheat

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