Felt Meaning
/ˈfɛlt/Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA cloth or stuff made of matted fibres of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving.
nounA hat made of felt.
Sentence Examples
I can imagine how you felt.
His classmates felt for him deeply.
I've never felt so embarrassed in my life!
CEFR Practice Quiz
She ____ a sudden chill as the wind blew through the open window.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
I ____ a sharp pain in my ankle when I tripped over the loose stone on the garden path.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English felt, from Old English felt, from Proto-West Germanic *felt (compare Dutch vilt, German Filz, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish filt, French feutre), from Proto-Indo-European *pilto, *pilso 'felt' (compare Latin pilleus (“felt”, adjective), Old Church Slavonic плъсть (plŭstĭ), Albanian plis, Ancient Greek πῖλος (pîlos)), from *pel- 'to beat'. More at anvil.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"It were a delicate stratagem to shoe
A troop of horse with felt."
— c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi]:
"You'll notice that all the illustrations are done in different media: some with pencil crayons, some with felts, some with paint, some with chalk pastels."
— 1989, Anne D. Forester, Margaret Reinhard, The Learners' Way, page 116:
"To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose."
— 1707, John Mortimer, The whole art of husbandry:
"the same Wool , for instance , one Men felts it into a Hat, another weaves it into Cloth , another weaves it into Kersey or Serge"
— a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:
"Conversions to Islam can therefore be a deeply felt aesthetic experience that rarely occurs in Christian accounts of conversion, which are generally the source rather than the result of a Christian experience of beauty."
— 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 257:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
She ____ a sudden chill as the wind blew through the open window.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
I ____ a sharp pain in my ankle when I tripped over the loose stone on the garden path.