flat

Pronunciation

• enPR: flăt, IPA ^(key): /flæt/
• SAMPA: /fl{t/

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Adjective

Positive flat

Comparative flatter

Superlative flattest

A pond with flat water

1. If something is flat, it has a surface with no high places or low places.

   There are a lot of mountains, and very little flat land for farming.

Noun

Singular flat

Plural flats

1. (countable) A flat is a rented room or rooms in a building with other flats.
   • Synonym: apartment

   Would you like to come back to my flat and watch TV?

2. (countable); (music) A flat makes a note one semitone lower than a natural: it is shown by the symbol ♭.

Verb

Plain form flat

Third-person singular flats

Past tense flatted

Past participle flatted

Present participle flatting

1. To make something flat.

Related words

• flatten