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.

Thesaurus

Noun

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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 → Flandre(s) f(pl)

Flanders [ˈflɑːndəz] n → Flandern nt

Flanders [ˈflɑːndəz] n → Fiandre fpl