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Added 8 October 2026

felt

/ˈfɛlt/ noun

In Latin: coactum Wiktionary

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about felt at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

A cloth or stuff made of matted fibres of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving.
A hat made of felt.
A felt-tip pen.

verb

To make into felt or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
To cover with, or as if with, felt.
to felt the cylinder of a steam engine
To cause (a player) to lose all their chips.

verb

simple past and past participle of feel

adjective

That has been experienced or perceived.

Origin

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- 'to beat'. More at anvil.

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