flanders
/ˈflæn.dəɹz/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.33 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "But Wallonian legislators are blocking the changes, fearing that their power is eroding, that the Flemish are doing some legal ethnic cleansing and that a divided Belgium will end the subsidies that flow south from richer Flanders."
- "When you went / Ambassador to the Emperor, you made bold / To carry into Flanders the great seal."
- "Ellipsis of West Flanders: a province of Flanders, Belgium."
- "Ellipsis of East Flanders: a province of Flanders, Belgium."
Etymology
From Middle English Flaundres, from Anglo-Norman Flaundre, Flaundres, from Middle Dutch Vlâendren pl, from Vlander, from Old Frisian, from Proto-West Germanic *flaumdr (“waterlogged land”), from *flaum (“flowing, current (water)”) (compare Old High German weraltfloum (“transitoriness of life”), Old Norse flaumr (“eddy”)), from Proto-Indo-European *plow-m- (“flow”) (compare Ancient Greek πλῠ́μα (plŭ́ma, “dishwater, washing water”)). More at flow. "Waterlogged" refers to the mudflats and salt marshes common to coastal Flanders.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Flaundres, Flaundre, Vlâendren, -, *flaumdr, *plow-m-
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈflæn.dəɹz/
- British English: /ˈflɑːn.dəz/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
Frequently Paired Words
East-Flanders
Flanderization
Flandrian
Flemish
French Flanders
Imperial Flanders
West-Flanders
Zeelandic Flanders