Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
name
An English surname transferred from the nickname [in turn originating as an ethnonym].
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
A male given name transferred from the surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
A town and locality in the Northern Territory, Australia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
A town in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
A neighbourhood of Alexandria, Egypt.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
A neighbourhood of Rome, Italy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
A number of places in the United States:
A statutory town in Logan County, Colorado.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Liberty County, Georgia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Redding Township, Jackson County, Indiana.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Crawford County, Kansas.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
A number of places in the United States:
A tiny city in Ray County, Missouri; a suburb of Kansas City.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
A number of places in the United States:
A town and hamlet in Cayuga County, New York.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
A number of places in the United States:
A small unincorporated community in Washington County, Ohio.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A native or inhabitant of Flanders in Belgium.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
present participle and gerund of fleme
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a native of Flanders or a Flemish-speaking Belgian
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: Belgian
noun
Scottish bacteriologist who discovered penicillin (1881-1955)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: Alexander Fleming, Sir Alexander Fleming
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: bacteriologist
noun
British writer famous for writing spy novels about secret agent James Bond (1908-1964)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: Ian Fleming, Ian Lancaster Fleming
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: writer, author
History
From Middle English flameng, from late Old Norse Flæmingi, from Old Norse Flǽmingr, Middle Dutch Vlaminc, Vleminc, from Old Frisian (unattested) (compare West Frisian Flaming), from Proto-Germanic *flaumaz (“flowing, current (water)”) and the patronymic suffix *-ingaz (“belonging to, descended from”). More at Flanders.
Across languages
39 source translations are retained for this English entry.
