Definitions for flanders
ˈflæn dərzflan·ders

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1. Flandersnoun

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

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1. Flandersnoun

   The Countship of Flanders, of varying extent.

2. Flandersnoun

   A subnational state in the north of federal Belgium, the institutional merger of a territorial region and the Dutch language 'community' which also has/shares some authority in the capital region Brussels.

3. Flandersnoun

   Two provinces in Belgian Flanders: (West-Flanders and East-Flanders).

4. Flandersnoun

   Short for French Flanders, a former province of the French kingdom on territory taken from the above countship, now constituting the French department Nord.

5. Flandersnoun

   The principal railway station in Lille, capital of the above.

6. Etymology: From Flandres, from Vlaanderen (pl.), from Vlander, from Old Frisian, from flaumdra ‘waterlogged land’, from ‘flowing, current (water)’ (compare Old High German weraltweraltfloum ‘transitoriness of life’, Old Norse flaumr ‘eddy’), from plow-m- ‘flow’ (compare Ancient Greek ‘dishwater, washing water’). More at flow. "Waterlogged" refers to the mudflats and salt marshes common to coastal Flanders.

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1. Flanders

   Flanders (UK: , US: ; Dutch: Vlaanderen [ˈvlaːndərə(n)] (listen)) is the Dutch-speaking northern portion of Belgium and one of the communities, regions and language areas of Belgium. However, there are several overlapping definitions, including ones related to culture, language, politics, and history, and sometimes involving neighbouring countries. The demonym associated with Flanders is Fleming, while the corresponding adjective is Flemish. The official capital of Flanders is the City of Brussels, although the Brussels-Capital Region that includes it has an independent regional government. The powers of the government of Flanders consist, among others, of economic affairs in the Flemish Region and the community aspects of Flanders life in Brussels, such as Flemish culture and education.Geographically, Flanders is mainly flat, and has a small section of coast on the North Sea. It borders the French department of Nord to the south-west near the coast, the Dutch provinces of Zeeland, North Brabant and Limburg to the north and east, and the Walloon provinces of Hainaut, Walloon Brabant and Liège to the south. Despite accounting for only 45% of Belgium's territory, it holds the country's largest population, with 6,653,062 (or 57%) out of 11,431,406 Belgian inhabitants living there. Much of Flanders is agriculturally fertile and densely populated at 483/km2 (1,250/sq mi). The Brussels Region is an officially bilingual enclave within the Flemish Region. Flanders also has exclaves of its own: Voeren in the east is between Wallonia and the Netherlands and Baarle-Hertog in the north consists of 22 exclaves surrounded by the Netherlands. Not including Brussels, there are five present-day Flemish provinces: Antwerp, East Flanders, Flemish Brabant, Limburg and West Flanders. The official language is Dutch. Other recognised languages are French and German. The area of today's Flanders has figured prominently in European history since the Middle Ages. The original County of Flanders stretched around AD 900 from the Strait of Dover to the Scheldt estuary and expanded from there. This county also still corresponds roughly with the modern-day Belgian provinces of West Flanders and East Flanders, along with neighbouring parts of France and the Netherlands. In this period, cities such as Ghent and Bruges of the historic County of Flanders, and later Antwerp of the Duchy of Brabant made it one of the richest and most urbanised parts of Europe, trading, and weaving the wool of neighbouring lands into cloth for both domestic use and export. As a consequence, a very sophisticated culture developed, with impressive achievements in the arts and architecture, rivaling those of northern Italy. Belgium was one of the centres of the 19th-century Industrial Revolution, but Flanders was at first overtaken by French-speaking Wallonia. In the second half of the 20th century, and due to massive national investments in port infrastructure, Flanders' economy modernised rapidly, and today Flanders and Brussels are much wealthier than Wallonia, being among the wealthiest regions in Europe and the world. In accordance with late 20th century Belgian state reforms, Flanders was made into two political entities: the Flemish Region (Dutch: Vlaams Gewest) and the Flemish Community (Dutch: Vlaamse Gemeenschap). These entities were merged, although geographically the Flemish Community, which has a broader cultural mandate, covers Brussels, whereas the Flemish Region does not.

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1. flanders

   Flanders is a region located in the northern part of Belgium, characterized by its Dutch-speaking population. It is one of the three official regions of Belgium, along with Wallonia and the Brussels-Capital Region. Flanders is known for its significant cultural and historical sites, as well as its strong economy. Historically, Flanders was also a powerful region of Europe during the Middle Ages. It may also refer to the broader historical region that covers parts of modern-day France, Belgium, and the Netherlands.

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1. Flanders

   Flanders today refers to the Dutch-speaking northern part of Belgium. It is one of the regions and communities of Belgium. Historically, the name referred to a region located in the north-western part of present-day Belgium and adjacent parts of France and the Netherlands. Both in the historical and the contemporary meaning, the demonym associated with Flanders is Fleming, while the corresponding adjective is Flemish. Brussels is the capital of Flanders, though not fully under its jurisdiction. Over the course of history, the geographical territory that was called "Flanders" has varied. From around 1000 AD, Flanders historically meant to English-speaking peoples the land situated along the North Sea from the Strait of Dover to the Scheldt estuary with ill-defined southern borders. It came to refer specifically to the County of Flanders, lasting from 862 to 1795, whose territory was situated in the northwestern part of what is now Belgium, with extensive portions in what is now northern France, and a small area that is now part of the Netherlands. Through marriage, the County of Flanders was joined with most of the rest of the Low Countries around 1400 AD, and it lost its independence. Most of the county's territory became part of an independent Belgium in 1830, and during the 19th and 20th centuries, it became increasingly commonplace to refer to the entire Dutch-speaking and northern part of Belgium as "Flanders", including the Belgian parts of the Duchy of Brabant and Limburg. In the late 20th century, Belgium became a federal state in which the Dutch-speaking part was given autonomy as the Flemish Community and the Flemish Region; these two entities were effectively merged, and Flanders now refers to the territory of the Flemish Community, which has partial jurisdiction over Brussels, its capital.

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1. Flanders

   the land of the Flemings, borders upon the North Sea, formerly extended from the Scheldt to the Somme, and included, besides the present Belgian provinces of East and West Flanders, part of Zealand, and also of Artois, in France; the ancient county dates from 862, in which year Charles the Bold of France, as suzerain, raised it to the status of a sovereign county, and bestowed it upon his son Baldwin I.; it has successively belonged to Spain and Austria, and in Louis XIV.'s reign a portion of it was ceded to France, now known as French Flanders, while Zealand passed into the hands of the Dutch; the remainder was in 1714 made the Austrian Netherlands, and in 1831 was incorporated with the new kingdom of Belgium (q. v.).

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1. flanders

   The principal part of the ancient Belgium, which was conquered by Julius Cæsar, 51 B.C. It became part of the kingdom of France in 843, and was governed by counts subject to the king, from 862 till 1369. Flanders was subjected successively to Burgundy (1384), Austria (1477), and Spain (1555). In 1580 it declared its independence, but afterwards returned to its allegiance to the house of Austria. In 1792 the French invaded imperial Flanders, and occupied it till 1814. In 1814 a portion of Flanders was given to the king of the Netherlands. Since the revolution of 1831, it has belonged to Belgium.

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1. flanders

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Etymology and OriginsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Flanders

   From the native name Vländergau, the country of the Vländer, who from the earliest period of their history were ruled by counts.

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1. FLANDERS

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Flanders is ranked #4043 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Flanders surname appeared 8,787 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 3 would have the surname Flanders.
   
   85.3% or 7,503 total occurrences were White.
   9.2% or 816 total occurrences were Black.
   2.6% or 236 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.5% or 140 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0.5% or 50 total occurrences were Asian.
   0.4% or 42 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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Anagrams for flanders »

1. snarfled

How to pronounce flanders?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of flanders in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of flanders in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of flanders in a Sentence

1. John McCrae:

   If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.

2. John McCrae, "In Flanders Fields":

   If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.

3. Jill Biden:

   War and conflict, death and loss are not relics of our American history; they're a part of Americans' story. Here in Arlington lie heroes who gave what President Lincoln called ‘the last full measure of devotion,’ they did not only die at Gettysburg or in Flanders Field or on the beaches of Normandy, but in the mountains of Afghanistan, the deserts of Iraq in the last 20 years.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=flanders
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Flanders
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flanders
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=flanders
6. ^ The Nuttall Encyclopedia
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12342/pg12342-images.html#Flanders
7. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html
8. ^ Etymology and Origins
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/54657/pg54657-images.html#:~:text=flanders
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html