FLANDERS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Flanders mean? 

• FLANDERS (noun)
  The noun FLANDERS has 1 sense:

1. a medieval country in northern Europe that included regions now parts of northern France and Belgium and southwestern Netherlands

  Familiarity information: FLANDERS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLANDERS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A medieval country in northern Europe that included regions now parts of northern France and Belgium and southwestern Netherlands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

European country; European nation (any one of the countries occupying the European continent)

Holonyms ("Flanders" is a part of...):

Europe (the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use 'Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles)

 Context examples 

To his north would be Flanders and the country of the Eastlanders and of the Muscovites.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was a tall, lusty, middle-aged man with a ruddy face, a brown forked beard shot with gray, and a broad Flanders hat set at the back of his head.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was indeed I and the black cook, both from the ship 'La Rose de Gloire,' of Southampton, who did set upon the Flanders merchant and rob him of his spicery and his mercery, for which, as we well know, you hold a warrant against us.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)