FLIER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flier mean? 

• FLIER (noun)
  The noun FLIER has 3 senses:

1. someone who travels by air

2. someone who operates an aircraft

3. an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution

  Familiarity information: FLIER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLIER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who travels by air

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

flier; flyer

Hypernyms ("flier" is a kind of...):

traveler; traveller (a person who changes location)

Derivation:

fly (travel in an airplane)

fly (travel through the air; be airborne)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who operates an aircraft

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

aeronaut; airman; aviator; flier; flyer

Hypernyms ("flier" is a kind of...):

skilled worker; skilled workman; trained worker (a worker who has acquired special skills)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flier"):

airwoman; aviatress; aviatrix (a woman aviator)

airplane pilot; pilot (someone who is licensed to operate an aircraft in flight)

Instance hyponyms:

Bennett; Floyd Bennett (United States aviator who (with Richard E. Byrd) piloted the first flight over the North Pole (1890-1928))

Bleriot; Louis Bleriot (French aviator who in 1909 made the first flight across the English Channel (1872-1936))

Cochran; Jacqueline Cochran (United States aviator who held several speed records and headed the women's Air Force pilots in World War II (1910-1980))

Doolittle; James Harold Doolittle; Jimmy Doolittle (United States Air Force officer who electrified the world in 1942 by leading a squadron of 16 bombers on a daylight raid over Tokyo (1896-1993))

Amelia Earhart; Earhart (first woman aviator to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic (1928); while attempting to fly around the world she disappeared over the Pacific (1898-1937))

Howard Hughes; Howard Robard Hughes; Hughes (United States industrialist who was an aviator and a film producer; during the last years of his life he was a total recluse (1905-1976))

Charles A. Lindbergh; Charles Augustus Lindbergh; Charles Lindbergh; Lindbergh; Lucky Lindy (United States aviator who in 1927 made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean (1902-1974))

Billy Mitchell; Mitchell; William Mitchell (United States aviator and general who was an early advocate of military air power (1879-1936))

Post; Wiley Post (United States aviator who in 1933 made the first solo flight around the world (1899-1935))

Derivation:

fly (operate an airplane)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

bill; broadsheet; broadside; circular; flier; flyer; handbill; throwaway

Context example:

he mailed the circular to all subscribers

Hypernyms ("flier" is a kind of...):

ad; advert; advertisement; advertising; advertizement; advertizing (a public promotion of some product or service)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flier"):

stuffer (an advertising circular that is enclosed with other material and (usually) sent by mail)

 Context examples 

It has been my wont to choose a saddle-backed feather for a dead shaft, and a swine-backed for a smooth flier.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Why, Morton or Johnson, the Oxford fliers, could romp round him.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sir John’s black strain makes a good, honest creature, but not fliers like these.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Some scientists believe the first fliers were tree-dwelling dinosaurs who could parachute and glide before they could fly, while some say flight grew up from the ground, from runners.

(Scientific study suggests dinosaurs flapped their wings as they ran, Wikinews)

Pompey is the pride of the local draghounds—no very great flier, as his build will show, but a staunch hound on a scent.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)