Usually means: Movement through air using wings.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. flight: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. flight: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. flight, flight: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. flight: Collins English Dictionary
  5. flight: Vocabulary.com
  6. Flight, flight: Wordnik
  7. flight: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. flight: Wiktionary
  9. flight: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. flight: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. flight: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Flight, flight: Dictionary.com
  13. flight (1), flight (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. flight: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. FLIGHT, Flight (Grey's Anatomy), Flight (Lessing story), Flight (Steinbeck story), Flight (comics), Flight (cricket), Flight (disambiguation), Flight (film), Flight (horse), Flight (magazine), Flight (military unit), Flight (novel), Flight (opera), Flight (play), Flight, The Flight (Lux), The Flight (band), The Flight (film), The Flight: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Flight: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. flight: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. flight: Rhymezone
  19. flight: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. flight: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. flight: Free Dictionary
  22. flight: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Flight, flight: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. Flight (of stairs): The Word Detective
  25. flight: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. flight: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. flight: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. flight: Law.com Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. flight: Legal dictionary
  6. Flight: Radio Programming and Production
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flight: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. flight: Idioms
  4. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)
  2. Flight: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. flight: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. flight: Urban Dictionary

Sports (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Flight: Fifthchair Bridge
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. flight: Golfer's Dictionary
  4. Flight: Sports Definitions
  5. Flight: Backgammon

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See flighting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The act of flying.
noun:  An instance of flying.
noun:  (collective) A collective term for doves or swallows.
noun:  A trip made by an aircraft, particularly one between two cities or countries, which is often planned or reserved in advance.
noun:  A series of stairs between landings.
noun:  A group of canal locks with a short distance between them
noun:  A floor which is reached by stairs or escalators.
noun:  The feathers on an arrow or dart used to help it follow an even path.
noun:  A paper airplane.
noun:  (cricket) The movement of a spinning ball through the air - concerns its speed, trajectory and drift.
noun:  The ballistic trajectory of an arrow or other projectile.
noun:  An aerodynamic surface designed to guide such a projectile's trajectory.
noun:  An air force unit.
noun:  (US, naval) A numbered subclass of a given class of warship, denoting incremental modernizations to the original design.
noun:  Several sample glasses of a specific wine varietal or other beverage. The pours are smaller than a full glass and the flight will generally include three to five different samples.
noun:  (by extension) A comparable sample of beers or other drinks.
noun:  (engineering) The shaped material forming the thread of a screw.
noun:  An episode of imaginative thinking or dreaming.
adjective:  (obsolete) Fast, swift, fleet.
verb:  (cricket, of a spin bowler) To throw the ball in such a way that it has more airtime and more spin than usual.
verb:  (sports, by extension, transitive) To throw or kick something so as to send it flying with more loft or airtime than usual.
noun:  The act of fleeing.

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