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Synonyms for fleet

Grammar : Adj, noun
Spell : fleet
Phonetic Transcription : flit

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Définition of fleet

Origin :
  • Old English fleot "ship, raft, floating vessel," from fleotan "to float" (see fleet (v.)). Sense of "naval force" is pre-1200. The Old English word also meant "creek, inlet, flow of water," especially one into the Thames near Ludgate Hill, which lent its name to Fleet Street (home of newspaper and magazine houses, standing for "the English press" since 1882), Fleet prison, etc.
  • adj quick in movement
  • noun group of ships
Example sentences :
  • They were distributed among the captains of the fleet for transportation to Athens.
  • Extract from : « Stories from Thucydides » by H. L. Havell
  • That's what you'd become if you were to stay in Fleet Street.
  • Extract from : « The Foolish Lovers » by St. John G. Ervine
  • There we knew we should find the army, and might get tidings of the fleet.
  • Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • One thousand of the best men in the fleet were sent to assist in the siege.
  • Extract from : « The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson » by Robert Southey
  • With these steeds, so well fitted for hunting, were twelve sleek, fleet hounds.
  • Extract from : « Welsh Fairy Tales » by William Elliott Griffis
  • He saw this lovely wife, one moment active and fleet as a deer.
  • Extract from : « Welsh Fairy Tales » by William Elliott Griffis
  • All of the Cleveland fleet disposed of their cargoes to good advantage.
  • Extract from : « Cleveland Past and Present » by Maurice Joblin
  • Whether he will buy his fleet abroad or build it himself is at present an enigma.
  • Extract from : « Freeland » by Theodor Hertzka
  • It is true that then Russia would probably have had no Baltic fleet.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 » by Various
  • He forgot the fleet of the Llotta, forgot the menace to his own world.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 » by Various

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