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# flier

«flier» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person or thing that flies, such as a pilot, a bird or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a flier, fliers); also spelled flyer

### meaning for a pupil

1) A flier is a person or thing that flies, such as a pilot, a bird or a passenger on planes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flier/#m1)

2) A flier is also a sheet of paper advertising something, handed out or put through letterboxes; this is more often spelled flyer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flier/#m2)

3) (informal) A fast runner or a very quick start, as in «get off to a flier». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flier/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life fliers advertise school fairs, pizza shops and lost pets. In stories about planes it means pilot or traveller. Phrases: «frequent flier», «hand out fliers», «a high flier» (someone very successful), «get off to a flier».

### examples

- We handed out fliers for the school fair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flier/#x1)
- A flier for a new pizza place came through the door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flier/#x2)
- My dad is a frequent flier because he travels for work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flier/#x3)
- The early fliers built planes out of wood and cloth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flier/#x4)
- Swifts are amazing fliers that hardly ever land. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flier/#x5)
- She is a high flier and got top marks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flier/#x6)
- Our team got off to a flier and scored in the first minute. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flier/#x7)
- We made a flier about the missing cat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flier/#x8)

### note

Both «flier» and «flyer» are correct; «flyer» is more common for the paper and in the UK. Plural fliers or flyers. A «high flier» is a person who succeeds, not a bird.

### In the corpora

- [The largest fliers ever, pterosaurs like Quetzalcoatlus, had wings about 10 metres across but were light, with hollow bones.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/146-shrek-s-dragon-real-dragons-and-lizards/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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