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

Derived forms: flatses

Type of: box, champaign, field, flatland, 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: Flats, WV