flyer

English

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Alternative forms

• flier

Etymology

to fly + -er

Noun

flyer (plural flyers)

1. A machine that flies.
2. Someone who pilots or rides in an airplane.
3. A leaflet, often for advertising.
4. The part of a spinning machine that twists the thread as it takes it to, and winds it on the bobbin
5. (architecture) An arch that connects a flying buttress into the structure it supports.
6. (cheerleading) A cheerleader who is airborne for a stunt.
7. (firearms) a stray shot away from the group on a target.
8. A standard rectangular step of a staircase (as opposed to a winder).

Synonyms

• (pilot): aviator, aviatrix

Translations

machine that flies

• Finnish: lentolaite (fi)
• Italian: velivolo (it)

• Macedonian: летало (mk) (létalo) n

someone who pilots or rides in an airplane

• Arabic: طيار (ar)
• Finnish: lentäjä (fi) (pilot), lentomatkustaja (fi) (passenger)
• French: pilote (fr)
• German: Flieger (de)
• Irish: eitleoir (ga) m

• Italian: volatore (it)
• Macedonian: летач (mk) (létač) m
• Spanish: piloto (es)

leaflet, often for advertising

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: лістоўка (be) (listóŭka) f, ўлётка (be) (ŭljótka) f
• Bulgarian: листовка (bg) (listóvka) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 傳單 (cmn), 传单 (cmn) (chuándān)

• Czech: leták (cs) m
• Finnish: lentolehtinen, lennäkki (fi)
• French: tract (fr), prospectus (fr), flyer (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Flugblatt (de) n
• Italian: annuncio (it), volantino (it), opuscolo (it)
• Japanese: 散らし (ja) (ちらし, chirashi), チラシ (ja) (chirashi), フライヤー (ja) (furaiyā)

• Macedonian: леток (mk) (létok) m
• Polish: ulotka (pl) f
• Romanian: foaie volantă (ro) f
• Russian: листовка (ru) (listóvka) f, флаер (ru) (flájer) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: летак (sh) m

  Roman: letak (sh) m

• Spanish: volante (es)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: листівка (uk) (lystívka) f

part of a spinning machine

• Italian: aletta di filatoio

architecture: connecting arch

• Finnish: tukikaari (fi)

cheerleading: airborne cheerleader

Verb

flyer (third-person singular simple present flyers, present participle flyering, simple past and past participle flyered)

1. (intransitive) To distribute flyers (leaflets).
2. (transitive) To distribute flyers in (a location) or to (recipients).

See also

• advertisement
• booklet
• brochure
• catalogue, catalog
• circular
• handbill
• junk mail
• leaflet
• pamphlet

Anagrams

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