nonflight

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From non- +‎ flight.

Noun[edit]

nonflight (plural nonflights)

  1. Something that is not a flight
    • 1988 April 1, Lawrence Bommer, “Amelia Lives!”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
      With lust for action as its only through line, Amelia's posterlike life runs in a straight line from nonflight to flight to death.
    • 2001, Airways: A Global Review of Commercial Flight - Volume 9[2], page 57:
      Following our arrival in Hawai'i, we made a side trip to Maui, sampling the only nonflights of our journey.