fleet
/ˈfliːt/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.33 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A large, coordinated group of people.
noun
Any group of associated items.
noun
Any group of associated items.
noun
Example Sentences
- "A fleet of warships is heading this way."
- "merchant fleet, shadow fleet"
- "He did discourse to us of the Dutch fleete being abroad, eighty-five of them still, and are now at the Texell, he believes, in expectation of our Eastland ships coming home with masts and hempe, and our loaden Hambrough ships going to Hambrough."
- "It was planning to use an '807' for one day only as part of a shakedown test, ahead of the fleet's formal entry to service which is currently planned for November."
- "She owns a fleet of private medical transport vans."
- "fleet car, fleet truck, fleet vehicle"
Etymology
From Middle English flete, flet (“fleet”), from Old English flēot (“ship”), likely related to Proto-West Germanic *flotōn, from Proto-Germanic *flutōną (“to float”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
fleets (plural)
fleete (alternative, obsolete)
fleets (present, singular)
fleeting (participle, present)
fleeted (participle, past)
fleeted (past)
fleeter (comparative)
more fleet (comparative)
fleetest (superlative)
most fleet (superlative)
Derived Forms
Phrases
Frequently Paired Words
weaponry
List of collective nouns on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Appendix:Glossary of collective nouns by collective term