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