flatlandn.

Brit.

/ˈflatland/,

/ˈflatlənd/, U.S.

/ˈflætˌlænd/

Forms: Also flat land.

1. A region of flat land. Originally U.S.

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1735 in Springfield (Mass.) Rec. (1899) II. 505 In the Said Ledge Hill then over Rocky flatland we found a Small white marked & Renewed it.

1836 J. Hall Statistics of West 31 That [water] which overflows the flat lands, will be stagnant, or flow gently backward in eddies.

1892 A. E. Lee Hist. Columbus I. 697 The rain poured down in sheets, inundating the flat-land.

1907 W. H. Koebel Return of Joe 167 A couple of thousand feet below us was spread the stretch of flatland.

1934 J. L. Myres in E. Eyre European Civilization I. 89 Westward towards the Atlantic from the lofty core of central Asia, the north-west quadrant of the Old World land-mass extends in three great belts, a Northern and a Southern Flatland, separated by a..Mountain-zone... The two flatlands consist of relatively steady blocks of old crust.

1959 Times 18 June (Suppl., Queen in Canada) p. vii/7 The flatlands of Prince Edward county.

1961 Guardian 25 Mar. 6/4 Its rich wheat fields..do show what can be done in the Sardinian flatlands.

1970 Guardian 18 July 1/8 Newark sprawls across the industrial flatlands that lie across the Hudson River from New York.

2. (With capital initial.) An imaginary land in space of two dimensions (see quot. 1884¹).

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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > surface > [noun] > imaginary land in

flatland1884

1884 E. A. Abbott Flatland i. §1 3 I call our world Flatland..Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above it or sinking below it.

1884 E. A. Abbott Flatland (ed. 2) p. x We have..in Flatland a Third unrecognized Dimension called ‘height’.

1892 W. W. R. Ball Math. Recreations & Probl. x. 191 We may picture the inhabitants of flatland as moving..on the surface of a plane or between two parallel and adjacent planes.

Derivatives

Flatland adj.

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1884 E. A. Abbott Flatland (ed. 2) p. ix My poor Flatland friend.

ˈFlatlander n. an inhabitant of Flatland.

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1884 E. A. Abbott Flatland (ed. 2) Pref.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

flat-land n.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > other areas

friars1479

foreign1514

acropolis1570

sestiere1599

shopping district1837

downstreet1865

Latin Quarter1869

midtown1882

club-land1885

flat-land1889

brick area1895

turf1953

grey area1959

office park1963

bed-sitter-land1968

edge city1968

1889 E. Dowson Let. 16 Nov. (1967) 117 I shall be spending the next 40 hours or so in Flatland.

1901 Daily News 20 Apr. 4/5 An interesting study in flat-land was provided yesterday at the Royal Courts of Justice, when the owner of a block of flats sued a tenant for a quarter's rent.

1971 Rand Daily Mail (Johannesburg) 3 Apr. 1/8 Within three years Johannesburg's congested flatland will have gained nearly 6500 new flats.

单词	flatland
释义	flatlandn. Brit. /ˈflatland/, /ˈflatlənd/, U.S. /ˈflætˌlænd/ Forms: Also flat land. 1. A region of flat land. Originally U.S. ΚΠ 1735 in Springfield (Mass.) Rec. (1899) II. 505 In the Said Ledge Hill then over Rocky flatland we found a Small white marked & Renewed it. 1836 J. Hall Statistics of West 31 That [water] which overflows the flat lands, will be stagnant, or flow gently backward in eddies. 1892 A. E. Lee Hist. Columbus I. 697 The rain poured down in sheets, inundating the flat-land. 1907 W. H. Koebel Return of Joe 167 A couple of thousand feet below us was spread the stretch of flatland. 1934 J. L. Myres in E. Eyre European Civilization I. 89 Westward towards the Atlantic from the lofty core of central Asia, the north-west quadrant of the Old World land-mass extends in three great belts, a Northern and a Southern Flatland, separated by a..Mountain-zone... The two flatlands consist of relatively steady blocks of old crust. 1959 Times 18 June (Suppl., Queen in Canada) p. vii/7 The flatlands of Prince Edward county. 1961 Guardian 25 Mar. 6/4 Its rich wheat fields..do show what can be done in the Sardinian flatlands. 1970 Guardian 18 July 1/8 Newark sprawls across the industrial flatlands that lie across the Hudson River from New York. 2. (With capital initial.) An imaginary land in space of two dimensions (see quot. 1884¹). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > geometry > surface > [noun] > imaginary land in flatland1884 1884 E. A. Abbott Flatland i. §1 3 I call our world Flatland..Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above it or sinking below it. 1884 E. A. Abbott Flatland (ed. 2) p. x We have..in Flatland a Third unrecognized Dimension called ‘height’. 1892 W. W. R. Ball Math. Recreations & Probl. x. 191 We may picture the inhabitants of flatland as moving..on the surface of a plane or between two parallel and adjacent planes. Derivatives Flatland adj. ΚΠ 1884 E. A. Abbott Flatland (ed. 2) p. ix My poor Flatland friend. ˈFlatlander n. an inhabitant of Flatland. ΚΠ 1884 E. A. Abbott Flatland (ed. 2) Pref. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2020). > as lemmas flat-land flat-land n. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > other areas friars1479 foreign1514 acropolis1570 sestiere1599 shopping district1837 downstreet1865 Latin Quarter1869 midtown1882 club-land1885 flat-land1889 brick area1895 turf1953 grey area1959 office park1963 bed-sitter-land1968 edge city1968 1889 E. Dowson Let. 16 Nov. (1967) 117 I shall be spending the next 40 hours or so in Flatland. 1901 Daily News 20 Apr. 4/5 An interesting study in flat-land was provided yesterday at the Royal Courts of Justice, when the owner of a block of flats sued a tenant for a quarter's rent. 1971 Rand Daily Mail (Johannesburg) 3 Apr. 1/8 Within three years Johannesburg's congested flatland will have gained nearly 6500 new flats. extracted from flatn.² < n.1735 as lemmas
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