Synonyms for flight
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English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. flight

   A career was originally the ground for a race, or, especially, for a knight's charge in tournament or battle; whence career was early applied to the charge itself.

   If you will use the lance, take ground for your career.... The four horsemen met in full career.

   Scott Quentin Durward ch. 14, p. 194. [D. F. & CO.]

   In its figurative use career signifies some continuous and conspicuous work, usually a life-work, and most frequently one of honorable achievement. Compare BUSINESS.

   Synonyms:
   career, charge, course, line of achievement, passage, public life, race, rush

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 2 votes

1. flight

   Synonyms:
   volitation, departure, escape, evasion, disappearance, flying, stampede, soaring, begin, fleeing, exodus

   Antonyms:
   recurrence, return, reappearance, perching, alighting, repose

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. flightnoun

   a formation of aircraft in flight

   Synonyms:
   flight of steps, trajectory, escape, flying, flight of stairs

2. flight, flyingnoun

   an instance of traveling by air

   "flying was still an exciting adventure for him"

   Synonyms:
   flight of steps, trajectory, escape, flying, flight of stairs

3. flight, flight of stairs, flight of stepsnoun

   a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next

   Synonyms:
   flight of steps, trajectory, escape, flying, flight of stairs

4. escape, flightnoun

   the act of escaping physically

   "he made his escape from the mental hospital"; "the canary escaped from its cage"; "his flight was an indication of his guilt"

   Synonyms:
   relief valve, leakage, trajectory, evasion, dodging, escape, escape cock, flight of stairs, leak, safety valve, escape valve, outflow, flying, flight of steps, escapism

5. flightnoun

   an air force unit smaller than a squadron

   Synonyms:
   flight of steps, trajectory, escape, flying, flight of stairs

6. flightnoun

   passing above and beyond ordinary bounds

   "a flight of fancy"; "flights of rhetoric"; "flights of imagination"

   Synonyms:
   flight of steps, trajectory, escape, flying, flight of stairs

7. trajectory, flightnoun

   the path followed by an object moving through space

   Synonyms:
   flight of steps, trajectory, escape, flying, flight of stairs

8. flightnoun

   a flock of flying birds

   Synonyms:
   flight of steps, trajectory, escape, flying, flight of stairs

9. flightverb

   a scheduled trip by plane between designated airports

   "I took the noon flight to Chicago"

   Synonyms:
   flight of steps, trajectory, escape, flying, flight of stairs

10. flightverb

    shoot a bird in flight

    Synonyms:
    fledge

11. flightverb

    fly in a flock

    "flighting wild geese"

    Synonyms:
    fledge

12. fledge, flightverb

    decorate with feathers

    "fledge an arrow"

    Synonyms:
    feather, fledge

Matched Categories

1. • Adorn
   • Air Travel
   • Air Unit
   • Creativity
   • Flock
   • Fly
   • Formation
   • Mechanical Phenomenon
   • Running Away
   • Shoot
   • Stairway

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. flightnoun

   Synonyms:
   flying, soaring, mounting, volitation

2. flightnoun

   Synonyms:
   fleeing, hasty departure

3. flightnoun

   Synonyms:
   flock (of birds)

4. flightnoun

   Synonyms:
   volley, shower

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:3.5 / 2 votes

1. flightnoun

   Synonyms:
   flying, exodus, hegira, fleeing, absconding

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:2.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "flight":

   vol, flights, flying, theft, vols, leak, leakage, robbery, plane, aviation, trip, escape, in-flight, aircraft, air, pilotage, exodus, brain, journey, fly, vol., stealing, fledging, navigant, stolen, airplane, airline, weasua, aeroplane

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How to use flight in a sentence?

1. The NTSB:

   Several other operations occurred at (the airport) while the 747 was on the runway, further negatively impacting flight safety.

2. United Airlines:

   The flight encountered turbulence while traveling from Newark to Honolulu, and a few passengers and flight attendants sustained injuries. Our primary focus is helping our passengers and crew, and our flight safety team will review what happened.

3. James Delgado:

   The sonar images showed the damage the Navy had initially documented is still very much there, the flight deck has been distorted. Some of the areas of the flight deck have started to collapse and there are holes in the deck.

4. Rich Scobee:

   Although space is dangerous -- as explorers we need to go because we don't fully understand things until one of us touches it, manned space flight is really important to who we are.

5. Remi Jouty:

   I can't speculate on what was happening inside his head; all I can say is that he changed this button to the minimum setting of 100 feet and he did it several times, these very brief actions on the previous flight were a sort of rehearsal of the manoeuvre.