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flat
CEFRA2
/ˈflæt/
adjective
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In plain English
- 01
adjective
Having a level surface with no raised parts.
- 02
adjective
Extra detailHaving no variations in height.
Examples
I'd love to go with you to the show, but I'm flat broke.
It was very hard for me to find your flat.
At a glance
Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 1
- Citations
- 5
- Synonyms
- 5
Deep Dive
adjective
Extra meaningsIn a horizontal line or plane; not sloping.
Smooth; having no protrusions, indentations or other surface irregularities, or relatively so.
Without variation in level, quantity, value, tone etc.
More examples
In contextThey're renting a furnished flat on the third floor.
The surface of the mirror must be completely flat.
The land around here is flat.
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Origin
adjective
From Middle English flat, a borrowing from Old Norse flatr (compare Norwegian and Swedish flat, Danish flad), from Proto-Germanic *flataz, from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“flat”); akin to Saterland Frisian flot (“smooth”), German Flöz (“a geological layer”), Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús), Latvian plats, Sanskrit प्रथस् (prathas, “extension”). Doublet of plat and pleyt. The noun is from Middle English flat (“level piece of ground, flat edge of a weapon”), from the adjective. The algebraic sense was coined by Serre in a 1956 paper, originally as French plat.