n. 1. a. A small fleet. b. A fleet of small craft. 2. A naval unit consisting of two or more squadrons of small warships. 3. Informal A group of vehicles owned or operated as a unit: a flotilla of limousines. [Spanish, diminutive of flota, fleet, from Old French flote, from Old Norse floti; see pleu- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] |
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