nonflight

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noun

Something that is not a flight

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Meanings

nounnonflight (plural nonflights)

plural nonflights

  1. Something that is not a flight

    Following our arrival in Hawai'i, we made a side trip to Maui, sampling the only nonflights of our journey.

    2001, Airways: A Global Review of Commercial Flight - Volume 9, page 57
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    With lust for action as its only through line, Amelia's posterlike life runs in a straight line from nonflight to flight to death.

    1988 April 1, Lawrence Bommer, “Amelia Lives!”, in Chicago Reader

Origin

From non- + flight.

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Cite this entry
APA

nonflight. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonflight

MLA

“nonflight.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonflight. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nonflight,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonflight.

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