Synonyms for flotsam in Free Thesaurus. Antonyms for flotsam. 9 synonyms for flotsam: debris, sweepings, rubbish, junk, wreckage, detritus, odds and ends, jetsam, jetsam. Flotsam definition is - floating wreckage of a ship or its cargo; broadly: floating debris. How to use flotsam in a sentence. Flotsam and jetsam Aren't Just Ursula's Eels.

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flot·sam

(flŏt′səm)n.

1. Goods floating on the surface of a body of water after a shipwreck or after being cast overboard to lighten the ship.

Flotsam synonyms, flotsam pronunciation, flotsam translation, English dictionary definition of flotsam. Goods floating on the surface of a body of water after a shipwreck or after being cast overboard to lighten the ship. Discarded or unimportant. Flotsam is the floating wreckage of a ship. You'll often hear it used with the word jetsam, which refers to floating objects that have been thrown from a ship, usually to lighten it before it sinks.

2. Discarded or unimportant things: 'Keyrings, bookmarks ... gum, scissors, paper clips ... pencils and pads stolen from various hotels: all this detritus, this flotsam of a life being lived at full throttle'(David Leavitt).

3. People who are considered to be worthless or to have been rejected by society.

[Anglo-Norman floteson, from Old French floter, to float, of Germanic origin; see pleu- in Indo-European roots.]

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flotsam

(ˈflɒtsəm) n

1. (Nautical Terms) wreckage from a ship found floating. Compare jetsam¹, lagan

2. useless or discarded objects; odds and ends (esp in the phrase flotsam and jetsam)

[C16: from Anglo-French floteson, from floter to float]

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flot•sam

(ˈflɒt səm)
Flotsam Definition

1. the part of the wreckage of a ship and its cargo found floating on the water. Compare jetsam, lagan.

3. useless or unimportant items; odds and ends.

Also called flot′sam and jet′sam (for defs. 3, 4).

[1600–10; < Anglo-French floteson, derivative of floter to float < Germanic; see float]

flotsam

material floating on the sea, especially debris or goods from ship-wrecks. Cf. jetsam.

Flotsam

parts of wreckage of a ship or cargo found floating on the sea, 1607; of odds and ends, 1861. See also jetsam.

Noun

flotsam - the floating wreckage of a ship

wreckage - the remaining parts of something that has been wrecked; 'they searched the wreckage for signs of survivors'

flotsam

noundebris, sweepings, rubbish, junk, wreckage, detritus, odds and ends, jetsamThe water was full of flotsam and refuse.

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flotsam

[ˈflɒtsəm]Nflotsam and jetsam → restosmpl (de naufragio) (

Flopson And Jepson

Tech) (frm) → peciosmpl

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flotsam

[ˈflɒtsəm]n

(= floating rubbish) → déchetsmplflottants, déchetsmplà la dérive
flotsam and jetsam (= floating rubbish) → déchetsmplflottants (= odds and ends) → objetsmplhétéroclites, déchetsmpl

flotsam

n → Treibgutnt; he was another of the city’s flotsam → er gehörte auch zu den Gestrandeten der Stadt; flotsam and jetsam (floating) → Treibgutnt; (washed ashore) → Strandgutnt; the flotsam and jetsam of our society → die Gestrandetenpl → or das Strandgut unserer Gesellschaft

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flotsam

[ˈflɒtsəm]nflotsam and jetsam → rifiutimplportati dal mare (people) → Jetsam and flotsam definition

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Related topics: Natureflotsamflot‧sam /ˈflɒtsəm $ ˈflɑː-/ noun [uncountable]1DNbrokenpieces of wood and other things from a wreckedship, floating in the sea or scattered on the shoreHe would walk along the beach collecting the flotsam and jetsam that had been washed ashore.2things that people no longer want and so throwawayworks of art made from the flotsam and jetsam of everyday life

Flotsam Definition English

3POORpeople who are very poor and do not have jobs or homesCamps were set up to shelter the flotsam and jetsam of the war.