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FLYING DUTCHMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Flying Dutchman mean? 

FLYING DUTCHMAN (noun)
  The noun FLYING DUTCHMAN has 2 senses:

1. the captain of a phantom ship (the Flying Dutchman) who was condemned to sail against the wind until Judgment Dayplay

2. a phantom ship that is said to appear in storms near the Cape of Good Hopeplay

  Familiarity information: FLYING DUTCHMAN used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FLYING DUTCHMAN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The captain of a phantom ship (the Flying Dutchman) who was condemned to sail against the wind until Judgment Day

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Flying Dutchman" is a kind of...):

apparition; fantasm; phantasm; phantasma; phantom; specter; spectre (a ghostly appearing figure)


Sense 2

Meaning:

A phantom ship that is said to appear in storms near the Cape of Good Hope

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Flying Dutchman" is a kind of...):

apparition; fantasm; phantasm; phantasma; phantom; shadow (something existing in perception only)


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