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# flagstaff

«flagstaff» in Mova's school dictionary: **flown; a flagpole** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a flagstaff, flagstaffs or flagstaves)

### meaning for a pupil

A tall pole on which a flag is flown; a flagpole. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flagstaff/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Everyday: schools, castles, town halls and ships have flagstaffs. In The Wind in the Willows, Toad Hall has a flagstaff. Also Flagstaff, a city in Arizona, USA, where Pluto was discovered in 1930 (a name).

### examples

- The flag fluttered on top of the flagstaff. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flagstaff/#x1)
- They raised the flag up the flagstaff every morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flagstaff/#x2)
- Toad Hall's flagstaff stood on the roof. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flagstaff/#x3)
- Lightning struck the tall flagstaff. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flagstaff/#x4)
- Pluto was discovered at an observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flagstaff/#x5)
- The flag was lowered to half-mast on the flagstaff. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flagstaff/#x6)

### note

Same as «flagpole». A «staff» here is a pole or stick. «Half-mast» means the flag is lowered halfway, to show sadness when someone important has died.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «flagstaff» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flagstaff/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.