Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun waft

1 sense of waft

Sense 1
pennant, pennon, streamer, waft -- (a long flag; often tapering)
       => flag -- (emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb waft

2 senses of waft

Sense 1
waft -- (be driven or carried along, as by the air; "Sounds wafted into the room")
       => float, drift, be adrift, blow -- (be in motion due to some air or water current; "The leaves were blowing in the wind"; "the boat drifted on the lake"; "The sailboat was adrift on the open sea"; "the shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore")

Sense 2
waft -- (blow gently; "A breeze wafted through the door")
       => blow -- (be blowing or storming; "The wind blew from the West")

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