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foreflight

foreflight noun: a flight made before the expected time; a previous or prior flight.

Noun

foreflight (plural foreflights)

  1. A flight made before the expected time; a previous or prior flight
    • Let winter be less sharp In that the heats of purpose Have winter foreflight in their wings, [...]1938, Laura (Riding) Jackson, Collected Poems
    • Yesterday Moscow, to-morrow what nation, are only the foreflights, Straws playing arrow in the storm-van, storm is good, storm is good, good creature, [...]1988, Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt, The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers

Forms of foreflight

pluralforeflights
alternative formfore-flight

Origin of foreflight

From fore- + flight.

Questions about foreflight

What does foreflight mean?
Foreflight means a flight made before the expected time; a previous or prior flight.
What part of speech is foreflight?
Foreflight is a noun.
What is the plural of foreflight?
The plural of foreflight is foreflights.

Words near foreflight in the dictionary

  1. forefins
  2. forefix
  3. forefixed
  4. forefixes
  5. forefixing
  6. foreflight
  7. foreflights
  8. foreflipper
  9. foreflippers
  10. foreflow
  11. foreflowed

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