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# flemish

«flemish» in Mova's school dictionary: **to do with Flanders, the northern Dutch-speaking part of…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

1) Flemish means to do with Flanders, the northern Dutch-speaking part of Belgium, or its people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flemish/#m1)

2) Flemish is the name for the Dutch spoken in Belgium. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flemish/#m3)

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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