Fleet

Quick meaning: Fleet is a noun meaning A group of vessels or vehicles.

Meaning

A group of vessels or vehicles.

More Meanings

1. Any group of associated items.
2. A large, coordinated group of people.
3. (nautical) A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
4. The individual waves in corrugated fiberboard.
5. (nautical) A location, as on a navigable river, where barges are secured.
6. (nautical, British Royal Navy) Any command of vessels exceeding a squadron in size, or a rear admiral's command, composed of five sail-of-the-line, with any number of smaller vessels.
7. (dialectal, obsolete outside of place names) An arm of the sea; a run of water, such as an inlet or a creek.

Example Sentences

Together wove we nets to entrap the fish In floods and sedgy fleets.

a certain Flete [...] through which little Boats used to come to the aforesaid Town

Legions of Spirits fleeting in the aire, Direct our Bullets and our weapons pointes […]

This is especially true in distributed printing environments, where a fleet of printers is shared by users on a network.

Word Forms

• fleets
• fleete
• fleeting
• fleeted
• fleeter
• fleetest

Synonyms for fleet

Depending on context, synonyms include nimble, fast, flutter, pass, dart, evanesce.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dart, pass, flit, flutter, swift, evanesce.

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