Flanders

Flan·ders  (flndrz)

1. A historical region of northwest Europe including parts of northern France, western Belgium, and southwest Netherlands along the North Sea. For many centuries it enjoyed virtual independence and great prosperity as a center of the cloth industry. The Hapsburg wars in the Low Countries caused the eventual division of the region, which suffered heavy damage during both World Wars.

2. A Dutch-speaking region of northern Belgium. It was granted limited autonomy in 1980.

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Flanders [ˈflɑːndəz]

n

(Placename) a powerful medieval principality in the SW part of the Low Countries, now in the Belgian provinces of East and West Flanders, the Netherlands province of Zeeland, and the French department of the Nord; scene of battles in many wars

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

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

Translations

Flanders [ˈflɑːndəz] N → Flandes m

Flanders [ˈflɑːndə^rz] n → Flandres fpl, Flandre f

Flanders

n → Flandern nt

Flanders [ˈflɑːndəz] nsg → le Fiandre fpl

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Flanders [ˈflɑːndəz] nsg → le Fiandre fpl