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flanders

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
14
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈflɑːn.dəz/ (UK)
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/ˈflɑːn.dəz/ (UK) · /ˈflæn.dɚz/ (US)

Definition of flanders

16 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

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  1. (countable, uncountable)A cultural region in the north of Belgium.
    “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.”
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  1. (countable, uncountable)A cultural region in the north of Belgium.
    “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.”
  2. (countable, uncountable)A historical county of Western Europe; in full, County of Flanders.
    “When you went / Ambassador to the Emperor, you made bold / To carry into Flanders the great seal.”
  3. (countable, uncountable)A region of Belgium. Official name: Flemish Region.
  4. (countable, uncountable)A community of Belgium. Official name: Flemish Community.
  5. (countable, uncountable)Two provinces in Belgian Flanders, West Flanders and East Flanders.
    “Ellipsis of West Flanders: a province of Flanders, Belgium.”
    “Ellipsis of East Flanders: a province of Flanders, Belgium.”
  6. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable)Ellipsis of French Flanders: a former province of France.
  7. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable)Ellipsis of French Flanders: a region of France.
  8. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable)Ellipsis of Zeelandic Flanders: a region of Zeeland, the Netherlands.
  9. (countable, uncountable)The principal railway station in Lille, capital of the above.
  10. (countable, uncountable)A place in the United States:
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  16. (countable, uncountable)A surname.

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Etymology

From Middle English Flaunders, Flaundress, flawndirs, from Old French Flandres, from Middle Dutch Vlâendren pl, from Vlander, from Old Frisian, from Proto-Germanic *flaumdrą (“waterlogged land”), from *flaumaz (“flowing, current (water)”)…

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From Middle English Flaunders, Flaundress, flawndirs, from Old French Flandres, from Middle Dutch Vlâendren pl, from Vlander, from Old Frisian, from Proto-Germanic *flaumdrą (“waterlogged land”), from *flaumaz (“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.

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