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Flemish definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FLEM'ISH, a. Pertaining to Flanders.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: of or relating to Flanders or its people or language or culture; "the Flemish population of Belgium"; "Flemish painters" n
1: an ethnic group speaking Flemish and living in northern and western Belgium
2: one of two official languages of Belgium; closely related to Dutch [syn: Flemish, Flemish dialect]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Date: 14th century of, relating to, or characteristic of Flanders or the Flemings or their language II. noun Date: circa 1741 1. the Germanic language of the Flemings that is made up of dialects of Dutch 2. plural in construction flemings

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & n. --adj. of or relating to Flanders. --n. the language of the Flemings. Phrases and idioms: Flemish bond Building a bond in which each course consists of alternate headers and stretchers. Etymology: MDu. Vlamisch (as FLEMING)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Flemish Flem"ish, a. Pertaining to Flanders, or the Flemings. -- n. The language or dialect spoken by the Flemings; also, collectively, the people of Flanders. Flemish accounts (Naut.), short or deficient accounts. [Humorous] --Ham. Nav. Encyc. Flemish beauty (Bot.), a well known pear. It is one of few kinds which have a red color on one side. Flemish bond. (Arch.) See Bond, n., 8. Flemish brick, a hard yellow paving brick. Flemish coil, a flat coil of rope with the end in the center and the turns lying against, without riding over, each other. Flemish eye (Naut.), an eye formed at the end of a rope by dividing the strands and lying them over each other. Flemish horse (Naut.), an additional footrope at the end of a yard.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

German Ger"man, n.; pl. Germans[L. Germanus, prob. of Celtis origin.] 1. A native or one of the people of Germany. 2. The German language. 3. (a) A round dance, often with a waltz movement, abounding in capriciosly involved figures. (b) A social party at which the german is danced. High German, the Teutonic dialect of Upper or Southern Germany, -- comprising Old High German, used from the 8th to the 11th century; Middle H. G., from the 12th to the 15th century; and Modern or New H. G., the language of Luther's Bible version and of modern German literature. The dialects of Central Germany, the basis of the modern literary language, are often called Middle German, and the Southern German dialects Upper German; but High German is also used to cover both groups. Low German, the language of Northern Germany and the Netherlands, -- including Friesic; Anglo-Saxon or Saxon; Old Saxon; Dutch or Low Dutch, with its dialect, Flemish; and Plattdeutsch (called also Low German), spoken in many dialects.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. Flemish means belonging or relating to the region of Flanders in northern Europe, or to its people, language, or culture. ADJ 2. Flemish is a language spoken in Belgium.