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flote

/fləʊt/

flote is the simple past of flite.

Meaning of flite

Verb

flite (third-person singular simple present flites, present participle fliting, simple past flited or flote, past participle flited or flote or flitten)

  1. (dialectal) to dispute, quarrel, wrangle, brawl.
  2. (dialectal) to scold, jeer.
  3. (obsolete) to make or utter complaint.

See all 5 meanings of flite

Noun

flote (plural flotes)

  1. (obsolete) A wave.
    • Ar. […]and for the reſt o'th' Fleet
      (Which I diſpers'd) they all haue met againe,
      And are vpon the Mediterranean Flote
      Bound ſadly home for Naples,
      Suppoſing that they ſaw the Kings ſhip wrackt,
      And his great perſon periſh.1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published...

Verb

flote (third-person singular simple present flotes, present participle floting, simple past and past participle floted)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To fleet; to skim.
    • seald their Milk before they flote it1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […]...

Forms of flote

Noun
pluralflotes
Verb
third-person singular presentflotes
present participlefloting
past participlefloted
pastfloted

Origin of flote

Compare French flot, Latin fluctus; also compare float (noun).

Words that rhyme with flote

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Questions about flote

What does flote mean?
Flote means a wave.
What is flote the simple past of?
Flote is the simple past of flite.
What part of speech is flote?
Flote can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce flote?
Flote is pronounced /fləʊt/.
What is the plural of flote?
The plural of flote is flotes.

Words near flote in the dictionary

  1. flotation tanks
  2. flotation therapy
  3. flotational
  4. flotations
  5. flotative
  6. flote
  7. floted
  8. flotel
  9. flotels
  10. floterial
  11. floterials

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flote (page history and authors); flite (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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