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flet

flet noun: floor; bottom; lower surface.

Noun (1)

flet (plural flets)

  1. (dialectal, rare) Floor; bottom; lower surface.
  2. (dialectal, rare) A house; home.

Noun (2) capitalized: FLET

FLET (plural FLETs)

  1. (US) forward line of enemy troops, front line

Antonyms of flet

Forms of flet

pluralflets
pluralFLETs
alternative form (obsolete)fleet
alternative form (obsolete)flette

Origin of flet

From Middle English flet (“floor of a house; house”), from Old English flet, flett (“the ground; the floor of a house; house; dwelling”), from Proto-West Germanic *flati, from Proto-Germanic *flatją (“a flat or level surface, level ground, floor, hallway”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“flat, broad”). Cognate with Dutch vlet (“flat-bottomed vessel, dory”), Low German Flet (“an upper bedroom”), German Fletz, Flötz (“level ground, threshing floor, hallway, set of rooms or benches”). More at flat.

Questions about flet

What does flet mean?
Flet means floor; bottom; lower surface.
What part of speech is flet?
Flet is a noun.
What is the plural of flet?
The plural of flet is flets.

Words near flet in the dictionary

  1. fleshy lupine
  2. flesinoxan
  3. Flesner
  4. Flesners
  5. flestolol
  6. flet
  7. fletazepam
  8. fletch
  9. Fletchall
  10. Fletchalls
  11. fletched

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