English Explanatory Dictionary

flet

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Floor; bottom; lower surface.
  2. A house; home.
noun
  1. forward line of enemy troops, front line

Word forms

flet flets fleet flette

Etymology

From Middle English flet (“floor of a house; house”), from Old English flet, flett (“the ground; the floor of a house; house; dwelling”), from Proto-West Germanic *flati, from Proto-Germanic *flatją (“a flat or level surface, level ground, floor, hallway”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“flat, broad”). Cognate with Dutch vlet (“flat-bottomed vessel, dory”), Low German Flet (“an upper bedroom”), German Fletz, Flötz (“level ground, threshing floor, hallway, set of rooms or benches”). More at flat.

Antonyms

FLOT
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