1. Footwear (shoes or slippers) with no heel (or a very low heel)

1. A level tract of land
   "the salt flats of Utah" 
2. A shallow box in which seedlings are started 
3. A musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named 
4. [N. Amer] Freight car without permanent sides or roof
   - flatcar [N. Amer], flatbed 
5. [N. Amer] A deflated pneumatic tire
   - flat tire [N. Amer], flat tyre [Brit], puncture 
6. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting 
7. [Brit] A suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
   - apartment

1. (music) lower a note in pitch 
2. [Austral, NZ] Live in or share an apartment

Derived forms: flatses

See also: flatlet [Brit]

Type of: box, champaign, field, footgear, footwear, freight car, housing, living accommodations, lodging, musical notation, plain, pneumatic tire [N. Amer], pneumatic tyre [Brit], scene, scenery

Part of: apartment building, apartment house, mise en scène, setting, stage setting

Encyclopedia: Flat, Alaska Flat, MO Flat Flat, AK Flat, Missouri Flat, Texas Flat, tx Flat, Puy-de-Dome Flat, Puy-de-Dôme

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