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# flemish

adjective (Flemish); noun (Flemish — the language; the Flemish — the people)

«flemish» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Flemish means to do with Flanders, the northern Dutch-speaking part of Belgium, or its people. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flemish/#m1)
2. Flemish is the name for the Dutch spoken in Belgium. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flemish/#m2)
3. Flemish art means paintings by artists from Flanders, like Bruegel and Van Eyck. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flemish/#m3)

### In the lessons

Geography (Belgium has Flemish-, French- and German-speaking areas), history and art lessons (Flemish painters, Flemish weavers who came to England). Phrases: Flemish painters, Flemish speakers.

### Examples

- In Belgium, Flemish is spoken in the north. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flemish/#x1)
- Bruegel was a Flemish painter. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flemish/#x2)
- The museum has Flemish paintings of village life. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flemish/#x3)
- Flemish weavers came to England in the Middle Ages. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flemish/#x4)
- Flemish is very close to the Dutch of the Netherlands. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flemish/#x5)
- Brussels has signs in French and Flemish. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flemish/#x6)

### Note

Always written with a capital F (it is a name for a people and place). Flemish and Dutch are essentially the same language with local differences. Not to be confused with «phlegm» or «flamingo».

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «flemish» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flemish/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«flemish» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/flemish.html) on Mova free.