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FLANDERS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A medieval country in northern Europe that included regions now parts of northern France and Belgium and southwestern Netherlands
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
European country; European nation (any one of the countries occupying the European continent)
Holonyms ("Flanders" is a part of...):
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)