Fleet

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English

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Etymology

From fleet (“stream, estuary”).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Fleet

  1. A river (the River Fleet) in London, England, now buried underground, that flowed under the Eastern end of the present Fleet Street.
    • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 29:
      This is hard-core London, and just before Farringdon station you will be able to glimpse the vast steel pipe that carries what was the Fleet River and is now the Fleet sewer over your head.
      The Fleet looks safely contained now, although you never know. It surprises me that no terrorist has made common cause with the surly and embittered Fleet, which, in Peter Ackroyd's words became 'a river of death' as it sidled through the meanest streets of London en route to the Thames.
  2. A former prison (the Fleet Prison) in London, which originally stood near the stream.
  3. A river, the Water of Fleet, in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland.
  4. A river in Highland council area, Scotland, which flows into Loch Fleet.
  5. A town and civil parish with a town council in Hart district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU8054). [1]
  6. A village and civil parish in South Holland district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF3823). [2]
  7. A hamlet in Alberta, Canada.
  8. A surname.

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Parish map (Hampshire)
  2. ^ Parish map (Lincolnshire)

Anagrams

East Central German

Etymology

Compare German Flöte.

Noun

Fleet (plural Fleetn)

  1. (Erzgebirgisch) flute
  2. (Erzgebirgisch, informal, vulgar) penis, dick

Further reading

  • 2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch‎, 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 43:

German

Etymology

From German Low German and Middle Low German vlēt, from Old Saxon fliot, from Proto-West Germanic *fleut, from Proto-Germanic *fleutą (“stream, river”). Cognate to Dutch vliet, English fleet.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fleːt/
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Noun

Fleet n (strong, genitive Fleets, plural Fleete)

  1. a watercourse through marshland
  2. a kind of city canal similar to the Dutch gracht, found in Hamburg and some other northern German cities

Declension

Declension of Fleet
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein das Fleet die Fleete
genitive eines des Fleets der Fleete
dative einem dem Fleet den Fleeten
accusative ein das Fleet die Fleete

Hunsrik

Etymology

From Middle High German vloite, from Middle Dutch floite, from Old French fleüte.

Pronunciation

Noun

Fleet f (plural Fleete)

  1. (music) flute
    Kannst-du Fleet spiele?
    Can you play the flute?

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