fleet

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A group of ships, especially warships, acting together.

   The navy sent its fleet to defend the coast.

2. 2
   noun

   A group of vehicles owned or operated by one organization.

   The company runs a fleet of delivery trucks.

3. 3
   adj

   Moving very fast.

   The fleet runner won the race easily.

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”).

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