"overflight" meaning in English

See overflight in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: overflights [plural]
Etymology: over- + flight Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|over|flight}} over- + flight Head templates: {{en-noun}} overflight (plural overflights)
  1. The flight of an aircraft over a particular place; used especially to refer to a flight over foreign or enemy territory. Wikipedia link: overflight Related terms: flyover [noun], flyover [adjective], flyover country, flyover state, flypast, overfly Translations (flight over a place): overflyvning [common-gender] (Danish), sorvolo [masculine] (Italian), sobrevuelo [masculine] (Spanish)

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for overflight meaning in English (2.0kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "over",
        "3": "flight"
      },
      "expansion": "over- + flight",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "over- + flight",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "overflights",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "overflight (plural overflights)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with over-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Wikipedia with redundant first parameter",
          "orig": "wikipedia with redundant first parameter",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1987 May 9, Bod Lederer, “US Denies AIDS Bio War with Contradictions”, in Gay Community News, page 8",
          "text": "Nicaragua has been investigating the possibility that the 1985 outbreak of dengue fever along its Honduran border may have resulted from the release of infected mosquitos by U.S. reconnaissance overflights.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The flight of an aircraft over a particular place; used especially to refer to a flight over foreign or enemy territory."
      ],
      "id": "en-overflight-en-noun-vQjpgvzG",
      "links": [
        [
          "flight",
          "flight"
        ],
        [
          "aircraft",
          "aircraft"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "noun"
          ],
          "word": "flyover"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "adjective"
          ],
          "word": "flyover"
        },
        {
          "word": "flyover country"
        },
        {
          "word": "flyover state"
        },
        {
          "word": "flypast"
        },
        {
          "word": "overfly"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "flight over a place",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "overflyvning"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "flight over a place",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "sorvolo"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "flight over a place",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "sobrevuelo"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "overflight"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "overflight"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "over",
        "3": "flight"
      },
      "expansion": "over- + flight",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "over- + flight",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "overflights",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "overflight (plural overflights)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "word": "flyover"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "adjective"
      ],
      "word": "flyover"
    },
    {
      "word": "flyover country"
    },
    {
      "word": "flyover state"
    },
    {
      "word": "flypast"
    },
    {
      "word": "overfly"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms prefixed with over-",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "wikipedia with redundant first parameter"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1987 May 9, Bod Lederer, “US Denies AIDS Bio War with Contradictions”, in Gay Community News, page 8",
          "text": "Nicaragua has been investigating the possibility that the 1985 outbreak of dengue fever along its Honduran border may have resulted from the release of infected mosquitos by U.S. reconnaissance overflights.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The flight of an aircraft over a particular place; used especially to refer to a flight over foreign or enemy territory."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "flight",
          "flight"
        ],
        [
          "aircraft",
          "aircraft"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "overflight"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "flight over a place",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "overflyvning"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "flight over a place",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sorvolo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "flight over a place",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sobrevuelo"
    }
  ],
  "word": "overflight"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.