wafts

Meaning of wafts

verb, 3rd person present
  1. (with reference to a scent, sound, etc.) pass or cause to pass gently through the air.
    the smell of stale fat wafted out from the cafe
    each breeze would waft pollen round the house
plural noun
  1. a gentle movement of air.
  2. a knotted ensign, garment, etc. displayed by a ship as a signal.

early 16th century (in the sense ‘escort a ship’): back-formation from obsolete wafter (used only by opponents of the practice) ‘armed convoy vessel’, from Low German, Dutch wachter, from wachten ‘to guard’. A sense ‘convey by water’ gave rise to the current use of the verb.

Information about wafts

  • The singular form of wafts is: waft.
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Hyphenation of wafts

wafts

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • wafts is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

wafts synonyms

Meaning be carried slowly by a current of air or water:

drift

Meaning move or hover slowly and lightly in a liquid or the air; drift:

float

Meaning move with a smooth, quiet continuous motion:

glide

Meaning move or cause to move rapidly round and round:

whirl

Meaning go from one place to another, typically over a distance of some length:

travel

Meaning transport or carry to a place:

convey

Meaning take or carry (people or goods) from one place to another by means of a vehicle, aircraft, or ship:

transport

Meaning cause (something) to pass on from one person or place to another:

transmit

Meaning support and move (someone or something) from one place to another:

carry

Meaning carry the weight of; support:

bear

Meaning (of wind) move creating an air current:

blow

Meaning breathe in repeated short gasps:

puff

Words that rhyme with wafts

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