Crossword-Solution: FLEET 5 letters, 207 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Fleet	n. & a.	To sail; to float.
Fleet	n. & a.	To fly swiftly; to pass over quickly; to hasten; to flit as a light substance.
Fleet	n. & a.	To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; -- said of a cable or hawser.
Fleet	v. t.	To pass over rapidly; to skin the surface of; as, a ship that fleets the gulf.
Fleet	v. t.	To hasten over; to cause to pass away lighty, or in mirth and joy.
Fleet	v. t.	To draw apart the blocks of; -- said of a tackle.
Fleet	v. t.	To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
Fleet	v. i.	Swift in motion; moving with velocity; light and quick in going from place to place; nimble.
Fleet	v. i.	Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.
Fleet	v. i.	A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
Fleet	v. i.	A flood; a creek or inlet; a bay or estuary; a river; -- obsolete, except as a place name, -- as Fleet Street in London.
Fleet	v. i.	A former prison in London, which originally stood near a stream, the Fleet (now filled up).
Fleet	v. i.	To take the cream from; to skim.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
FLEET	anagram	FTLEE

We have 207 clues for the answer “FLEET”

Clue	Answers
AIRCRAFT forming a group or unit	1 answer
Admiral Sherman's command.	1 answer
Admiral's armada	1 answer
Admiral's charge	1 answer
Admiral's pride	1 answer
Admiral's ships	1 answer
Arms in the water?	1 answer
Assembly of starships	1 answer
Auto collection	1 answer
Big tour-bus armada	1 answer
British journalist's street	1 answer
British journalist's street, once	1 answer
Budget manager's responsibility	1 answer
Bunch of battleships	1 answer
Bunch of boats	1 answer
Bunch of ships	1 answer
CREEK (rare)	1 answer
Cars in quantity	1 answer
Company cars, as a group	1 answer
Company vehicles collectively	1 answer
Craft collection?	1 answer
Eighth Army's General Van ___.	1 answer
Farragut's command	1 answer
Fast of foot	1 answer
Fast ships?	1 answer
Fast warships?	1 answer
Flagship's group	1 answer
GROUP of vehicles operated as a unit	1 answer
Gardner's command.	1 answer
Group of ships sailing together	1 answer
Group of Planes Big name in small	1 answer
Group of navy ships	1 answer
Group of planes	1 answer
Group of ships	1 answer
Group of vehicles	1 answer
Hertz inventory	1 answer
It has gobs of gobs	1 answer
James Van ___, U. S. commander.	1 answer
Jerauld Wright's concern.	1 answer
Like Atalanta	1 answer
Like Hermes	1 answer
Like a base-stealing threat	1 answer
Like a gazelle	1 answer
Like a road runner	1 answer
Like an impala	1 answer
Like sprinters	1 answer
London's newspaper street.	1 answer
London's street of newspapers.	1 answer
Lynde D. McCormick's concern.	1 answer
McCormick's command.	1 answer

✏️ Suggest another clue Know another question for crossword solution "FLEET"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!

Kind of apple

?

E

?

A

?

T

?

E

?

R

Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

TEARE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

Play Crossword

13 +1

New Suggestion for "FLEET"

Related word tools

Unscramble FLEET 5-letter words that start with F 5-letter words that end in T 5-letter words containing LE 5-letter words containing ET 5-letter words with F and L

Sentences with FLEET (5)

Thus, while virtually any flag can be used for ships under a given set of circumstances, an FOC register is one where the majority of the merchant fleet is owned abroad.

The 1991 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1992

The fleet of refugees was scattering to the northeast; several smacks were sailing between the ironclads and the steamboat.

The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992

When sent to the forest Tip often climbed trees for birds’ eggs or amused himself chasing the fleet white rabbits or fishing in the brooks with bent pins.

The Marvellous Land of Oz L. Frank Baum 1993

But it is not to be wondered at since no enemy guessed the existence upon Barsoom of such a fleet, or even of the First Born, or the Sea of Omean.

The Gods of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

Marconi realised that his signaling system would be most useful to shipping, and in those days England possessed the world's greatest navy and the world's biggest merchant fleet.

The Dawn of Amateur Radio in the U.K. and Greece Norman F. Joly 2008

Quotes with FLEET (3)

Arthur: If I asked you where the hell we were, would I regret it? Ford: We're safe. Arthur: Oh good. Ford: We're in a small galley cabin in one of the spaceships of the Vogon Constructor Fleet. that I wasn't previously aware of.

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Were you there?” She shook her head. “No. I was here in Nain having achild.”“Then why do you weep as though you had part in hiscrucifixion? You had no part in it.”“I’d like nothing better than to think I would haveremained faithful. But if those closest to him — hisdisciples, his own brothers — turned away, who am I tothink I’m better than they and would have donedifferently? No, Marcus. We all wanted what wewanted, and when the Lord fulfilled his purpose ratherthan ours, we …

Francine Rivers An Echo in the Darkness

We know The wheel of time moves on New bonds, new ties ignite Moments fleet, memories drift, shadows glide There is always a hope At the horizon we seek.

Balroop Singh Sublime Shadows Of Life

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Custom, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 226 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).