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felt¹
- /ˈfɛlt/
- [ˈfɛlt]
- /ˈfæ̝lt/
- [ˈfæ̝lt]
- /ˈfɛʊ̯t/
- [ˈfɛʊ̯t]
Rhymes with -ɛlt
Where it comes from
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.
noun felts · felte
- A 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. It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt.
- A hat made of felt.
- A felt-tip pen. 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.
- A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt. To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose.
verb felts · felting · felted · felte
- To make into felt or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together. the same Wool , for instance , one Men felts it into a Hat, another weaves it into Cloth , another weaves it into Kersey or Serge
- To cover with, or as if with, felt. to felt the cylinder of a steam engine
- To cause (a player) to lose all their chips.
- To thoroughly defeat or humiliate (someone).
felt²
- /ˈfɛlt/
- [ˈfɛlt]
- /ˈfæ̝lt/
- [ˈfæ̝lt]
- /ˈfɛʊ̯t/
- [ˈfɛʊ̯t]
Rhymes with -ɛlt
Where it comes from
From Old English fēled, corresponding to feel + -ed.
verb felte
- simple past and past participle of feel
adjective more felt · most felt · felte
- That has been experienced or perceived. 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.
Felt³
proper noun Felts
- A surname. Anaïs Felt, a 31-year-old content creator based in the San Francisco Bay area, has “never felt better” after taking a microretirement this year. […] In the caption, Felt noted that the break is “totally worth it” if you have the money. She’s “childfree” and had saved up “a sizable chunk” of funds be
FELT⁴
noun FELTs
- Acronym of fast-evolving luminous transient, a type of supernova.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: mat, sensed, detected, perceived, felt up, mat up, saw, hair, pen, figured, pointed, fabric, marker, found, lay, bunnet
Translations
Every language
noun cloth made of matted fibres of wool
| Español | fieltro, hieltro (disused) |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 펠트 pelteu |
| 日本語 | フェルト feruto, 羅紗 rasha, 毛氈 mōsen |
| 中文 | 毛氈 /毛毡 máozhān |
| हिन्दी | नमदा namdā |
| Português | feltro |
| Français | feutre, feutrine |
| Deutsch | Filz |
| Italiano | feltro |
| Ελληνικά | κετσές ketsés, τσόχα tsócha |
| Română | pâslă |
| Русский | фетр fetr, во́йлок vójlok |
| עברית | לבד léved |
noun hat made of felt
| Español | fieltro, hieltro (disused) |
|---|---|
| Português | feltro |
| Français | feutre |
| Deutsch | Filzhut |
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title = {felt},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
