FLANDERS
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)
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 (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)
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