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Webster 1913 Edition


Fleming

Flem′ing

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Noun.
A native or inhabitant of Flanders.

Webster 1828 Edition


Fleming

FLEM'ING

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Noun.
A native of Flanders, or the Low Countries in Europe.

Definition 2024


Fleming

Fleming

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English

Noun

Fleming (plural Flemings)

  1. A native or inhabitant of Flanders in Belgium.
    • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Episode 12, The Cyclops
      --And our eyes are on Europe, says the citizen. We had our trade with Spain and the French and with the Flemings before those mongrels were pupped, Spanish ale in Galway, the winebark on the winedark waterway.

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Proper noun

Fleming

  1. An English surname.
  2. Ian Fleming, English writer.
  3. Sir Alexander Fleming, Scottish bacteriologist.
  4. A town in Colorado.
  5. A city in Missouri.
  6. A town and hamlet in New York.
  7. A town in Saskatchewan, Canada.
  8. A male given name

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fleming

fleming

See also: Fleming

English

Verb

fleming

  1. present participle of fleme