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Definition of Flatlander
1. Noun. (pejorative) A person who lives at low altitude - used by those living at higher altitudes ¹
2. Noun. (physics) An inhabitant of or observer in a universe with two spatial dimensions. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Flatlander
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flatlander
Literary usage of Flatlander
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Unity in Nature: An Analogy Between Music and Life by C. E. Stromeyer (1911)
"Each flatlander must be surrounded on his or her circumference by a nervous ...
Should a bubble rise from below and lift up the centre of a flatlander so ..."
2. The Journal of Science by Calcutta Asiatic Society (1885)
"Just as one of us can enter a closed square or circle from a direction which to
the supposed flatlander would be invisible, ..."
3. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott (1899)
"... ascending in the three positions indicated there, must needs have manifested
himself to me, or to any flatlander, as a Circle, at first of full size, ..."
4. A Scrap-book of Elementary Mathematics: Notes, Recreations, Essays by William Frank White (1908)
"... be not less human than we, nor less real, but more so; if 'real' has degrees
of comparison. The flatlander who crosses the ..."
5. The Fourth Dimension Simply Explained: A Collection of Essays Selected from by Henry Parker Manning (1910)
"Right around us, but in a direction that we can no more conceive than the flatlander
can conceive a direction perpendicular to his plane, there may exist, ..."
6. Memoirs of a Winnerby Gary Ward Scott by Gary Ward Scott (2007)
"I found the picturesque old pension hotel, Dr. Szontagh Villa, checked in and
went out for lunch with all the Slovak flatlander tourists in town on yet ..."
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