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flotson

flotson is the dated form of flotsam.

Meaning of flotsam

Noun

flotsam (countable and uncountable, plural flotsams)

  1. Debris floating in a river or sea, in particular fragments from a shipwreck.
    • WORF: Sensors beginning to pick up small objects, sir.
      PICARD: On screen.
      RIKER: Doesn't look natural.
      PICARD: Agreed. Enlarge and identify.
      WORF: It looks like debris from a space vessel of some kind.
      RIKER: It could be one of those ships that was orbiting Dytallix.
      LA FORGE: We are in close...1988 May 9, Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Michael Dorn, LeVar Burton, Conspiracy (Star Trek: The Next Generation), Paramount Domestic Television, →OCLC

Forms of flotson

pluralflotsons

Questions about flotson

What is flotson the dated form of?
Flotson is the dated form of flotsam.

Words near flotson in the dictionary

  1. floting
  2. flotorial
  3. flotsam
  4. flotsam and jetsam
  5. flotsams
  6. flotson
  7. flotsons
  8. flottant
  9. flotten
  10. Flottum
  11. Flottums

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flotson (page history and authors); flotsam (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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