## Meanings
1. A group of ships, especially warships, acting together.
2. A group of vehicles owned or operated by one organization.
3. Moving very fast.

## Examples
- The navy sent its fleet to defend the coast.
- The company runs a fleet of delivery trucks.
- The fleet runner won the race easily.

## Derived Forms
- airfleet
- carfleet
- fleetfoot
- fleetfooted
- fleetful
- fleetly
- fleetmate
- fleetname
- fleetness
- fleetside
- fleetwide
- interfleet

## Related Forms
- weaponry

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: flete
- Root: flēot
- Root: *fleut
- Root: *fleutą

## Etymology
From Middle English flete (“bay, gulf”), from Old English flēot (“a bay, gulf, an arm of the sea, estuary, the mouth of a river”), from Proto-West Germanic *fleut, from Proto-Germanic *fleutą. Cognate with Dutch vliet (“stream, river, creek, inlet”), German Fleet (“watercourse, canal”).

## AI Etymology
Fleet comes from Middle English flete (“bay, gulf”), from Old English flēot (“a bay, gulf, an arm of the sea, estuary, the mouth of a river”), from Proto-West Germanic *fleut, from Proto-Germanic *fleutą. Cognate with Dutch vliet (“stream, river, creek, inlet”), German Fleet (“watercourse, canal”). In current use, the main senses are “A group of ships, especially warships, acting together” and “A group of vehicles owned or operated by one organization”.

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