flight

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a scheduled trip by plane between designated airports

   I took the noon flight to Chicago

2. 2
   noun

   passing above and beyond ordinary bounds

   a flight of fancy

3. 3
   verb

   fly in a flock

   flighting wild geese

4. 4
   noun

   The act of flying.

   Most birds are capable of flight.

5. 5
   noun

   An instance of flying.

   The migrating birds' flight took them to Africa.

6. 6
   noun

   A collective term for doves or swallows.

   a flight of swallows

7. 7
   noun

   A trip made by an aircraft, particularly one between two cities or countries, which is often planned or reserved in advance.

   The flight to Paris leaves at 7 o'clock tonight.

8. 8
   noun

   A series of stairs between landings.

   Limerick terminus has changed but little since its opening, and travellers still ascend the same flight of steps from the forecourt to enter the handsome two-storey stone building, which contains the offices and a recently-modernised refreshment room.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *plew- Proto-Indo-European *plewk-der. Proto-Germanic *fleuganą Proto-West Germanic *fleugan Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Germanic *-þiz Proto-West Germanic *-þi Proto-West Germanic *fluhti Old English flyht Middle English flight English flight From Middle English flight, from Old English flyht (“flight”), from Proto-West Germanic *fluhti (“flight”), derived from *fleuganą (“to fly”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“to fly”), enlargement of *plew- (“flow”). Analyzable as fly + -t (variant of -th). Cognate with West Frisian flecht (“flight”), Dutch vluch…