FLIGHT Synonyms: 45 Similar and Opposite Words

flight 1 of 2

noun (1)

ˈflīt

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as in flying

travel through the air by the use of wings for centuries people had been fascinated by the flight of birds

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noun (2)

as in escape

the act or an instance of getting free from danger or confinement a work of 19th-century Romanticism depicting the ancient Israelites' flight from Egypt

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Recent Examples of flight

Noun

According to the ministry, the exercises include tactical flight training, live-fire drills, support-and-cover missions, and combined search-and-rescue operations. —

Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 27 May 2026 About 900 flights experience GPS disruptions daily, with degraded GPS service affecting a dozen or so transatlantic flights. —

Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 27 May 2026 Its new runway can handle Airbus A320s and Boeing 737s, so direct international flights to the northern atolls are now possible. —

Jim Dobson, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026 The traffic management program delayed Denver flights by an average of 46 minutes on Wednesday. —

Katie Langford, Denver Post, 27 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for flight

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Those engines made the new generation of 737s more fuel efficient, but also changed the jets' flying characteristics.

— Zach Wichter, USA Today, 20 May 2026
Even in Europe, where anti-private jet rhetoric is again on the rise, private jet flying is also surging.

— Doug Gollan, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026