Meaning

4 senses
  1. (not comparable)Flying.

    1874, Ambrose Bierce (as Dod Grile), “The Legend of Immortal Truth” in Cobwebs, London: “Fun” Office, ca. 1884, p. 114, Then, like a rocket set aflight, / She sprang, and streaked it for the light!

  2. (not comparable)Covered or filled (with something flying).

  3. (not comparable)Fleeing.

    1915, Marvin M. Taylor, “The Roll of the War Drums” in Donald Tulloch (ed.), Songs and Poems of the Great World War, Worcester, MA: Davis Press, p. 17, Like shepherdless sheep from wolves aflight

  4. (not comparable, obsolete)Showing distress, anxiety or other strong emotion.

Origin

From a- + flight.

From a- + flight.

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