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Definition of Fleming

1. Noun. British writer famous for writing spy novels about secret agent James Bond (1908-1964).

2. Noun. Scottish bacteriologist who discovered penicillin (1881-1955).

3. Noun. A native of Flanders or a Flemish-speaking Belgian.

Definition of Fleming

1. n. A native or inhabitant of Flanders.

Definition of Fleming

1. Noun. A native or inhabitant of Flanders in Belgium. ¹

2. Proper noun. (surname A=An English from=Middle English) ¹

3. Proper noun. Ian Fleming, English writer. ¹

4. Proper noun. Sir Alexander Fleming, Scottish bacteriologist. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fleming

1. fleme [v] - See also: fleme

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fleming

Flavobacterium breve Flavobacterium piscicida Flaxedil Flechsig's areas Flechsig's fasciculi Flechsig's ground bundles Flechsig's tract Fleet Fleet Street Flegel's disease

Fleischer's ring Fleischer-Strumpell ring Fleischmann's bursa Fleitmann's test Fleming (current term) Flemings Flemish Flemish-speaking Flemish Brabant Flemish Sign Language

Flemish bend Flemish bends Flemish bond Flemish bonds Flemish dialect Flemming's fixative Flemming's triple stain Flensburg Flesch formula

Literary usage of Fleming

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"Shortly afterwards Fleming was sent along with Lord Herries to ask Elizabeth's ... Mary also asked for Elizabeth's permission for Fleming to go on a mission ..."

2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"... is in possession of a league of land known as the Peter Fleming league, which is in conflict with the eleven leagues set out in plaintiffs petition; ..."

3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"non, Robert T. Fleming, shall have died before him, leaving issue which shall be living at his death, such issue shall represent his, her, ..."

4. Chief Contemporary Dramatists, Second Series: Eighteen Plays from the Recent by Thomas Herbert Dickinson (1921)
"Fleming, I want to thank you for that charming letter you wrote me. ... Fleming. Well, on first principles I think American girls had better marry American ..."

5. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"In Gryphius the most gifted dramatist, in Opitz the greatest literary influence, and in Fleming the most genuine lyric poet of his time, the spirit of ..."

6. Von Opitz Bis Klopstock: Ein Beitrag Zur Geschichte Der Deutschen Dichtung by Karl von Lemcke (1882)
"Paul Fleming. Die freieren Lyriker. ... Paul Fleming**) kam, früh als begabt erkannt, als Knabe auf die ... 1634 war Fleming in Moskau, 1635 in Reval. ..."

7. Who's who by Henry Robert Addison, Charles Henry Oakes, William John Lawson, Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen (1898)
"1842 ; ». of late James Fleming, QC and Julia, d. of late Maj. John Canning; m. Constance Mary, d. of MD Kavanagh, barrister, and the Hon. ..."

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