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flight1

 
 
pronunciation:
flaIt
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part of speech: noun
definition 1: Flight is an act of moving through space by flying. Birds flying in the air are in flight.
The flight of the geese is a sign that winter is coming.
 
definition 2: A flight is a trip on a plane from one place to another.
When my grandmother went to visit her friend, I told her to have a nice flight.
definition 3: A flight is the time or distance covered by an airplane or other flying object. When you have a short flight on an airplane, it means that your trip on the airplane took a short amount of time.
It's a 14-hour flight from New York to Japan.
definition 4: A flight is a group of steps between two floors in a building.
I carried the packages up three flights to the fourth floor.
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