Flucht

• IPA^(key): /flʊxt/
• Rhymes: -ʊχt

From Middle High German vluht, from Old High German fluht, from Proto-West Germanic *fluhti (“escape”). Pertaining to fliehen (“to flee”).

Flucht f (genitive Flucht, plural Fluchten)

1. escape, flight (act of fleeing)

From Middle Low German vlucht, from Old Saxon fluht, from Proto-West Germanic *fluhti (“flying”). Pertaining to fliegen (“to fly”).

Flucht f (genitive Flucht, plural Fluchten)

1. (construction, technical) line, alignment (vertical or horizontal line along which houses, walls, windows or other building elements are arranged)
2. (construction, dated as a simplex) suite, line of rooms, number of rooms interconnected by doors

   Synonyms: Suite, Zimmerflucht

3. (ornithology) flock of birds

   Synonym: Schwarm (the normal word)

• “Flucht” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Flucht f (plural Fluchte)

1. flight (act of fleeing)
2. escape