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Flanders

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Etymology

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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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Flanders (countable and uncountable, plural Flanderses)

  1. A cultural region in the north of Belgium.
    • 2008 May 14, Steven Erlanger, “Seams of Belgium’s Quilt Threaten to Burst”, in The New York Times[1]:
      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. A historical county of Western Europe; in full, County of Flanders.
  3. A region of Belgium. Official name: Flemish Region.
  4. A community of Belgium. Official name: Flemish Community.
  5. Two provinces in Belgian Flanders, West Flanders and East Flanders.
  6. Ellipsis of West Flanders: a province of Flanders, Belgium.
  7. Ellipsis of East Flanders: a province of Flanders, Belgium.
  8. Ellipsis of French Flanders: a former province of France.
  9. Ellipsis of French Flanders: a region of France.
  10. Ellipsis of Zeelandic Flanders: a region of Zeeland, the Netherlands.
  11. The principal railway station in Lille, capital of the above.
  12. An unincorporated community in Mount Olive, Morris County, New Jersey, United States.
  13. A surname.
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