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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From fleet (“stream, estuary”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Fleet
- 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.
- A former prison (the Fleet Prison) in London, which originally stood near the stream.
- A river, the Water of Fleet, in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland.
- A river in Highland council area, Scotland, which flows into Loch Fleet.
- A town and civil parish with a town council in Hart district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU8054). [1]
- A village and civil parish in South Holland district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF3823). [2]
- A hamlet in Alberta, Canada.
- A surname.
Derived terms
[edit]- Fleet Street
- Gatehouse of Fleet (Scotland)
- Loch Fleet
References
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[edit]East Central German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]Fleet (plural Fleetn)
Further reading
[edit]- 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[1], 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 43:
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]Noun
[edit]Fleet n (strong, genitive Fleets, plural Fleete)
- a watercourse through marshland
- a kind of city canal similar to the Dutch gracht, found in Hamburg and some other northern German cities
Declension
[edit]Declension of Fleet [neuter, strong]
Hunsrik
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German vloite, from Middle Dutch floite, from Old French fleüte.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Fleet f (nominative plural Fleete)
Declension
[edit]Declension of Fleet
Further reading
[edit]- Piter Kehoma Boll (2021) “Fleet”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português[2] (in Portuguese), 3rd edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 56
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