Definition/Meaning of felt

• English - Noun: felt (countable and uncountable, plural felts) (countable, uncountable) A cloth or stuff made of mat ted fibre s of wool , or wool and fur , full ed or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving. c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First…
• English - Verb: felt (third-person singular simple present felts, present participle felting, simple past and past participle felted) (transitive) To make into felt or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together. 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,…
• English - Adjective: felt (comparative more felt, superlative most felt) (transitive) That has been experienced or perceived . 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 257: 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…
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• English - Etymology: Etymology 1. 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-…