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FLINDERS

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bits and splinters and fragments

Example:

it would have shattered in flinders long before it did that damage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("flinders" is a kind of...):

accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

Sense 2

Meaning:

British explorer who mapped the Australian coast (1774-1814)

Synonyms:

Flinders; Matthew Flinders; Sir Matthew Flinders

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

adventurer; explorer (someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose))

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