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Definition of Flier
1. Noun. Someone who travels by air.
2. Noun. Someone who operates an aircraft.
Specialized synonyms: Airwoman, Aviatress, Aviatrix, Airplane Pilot, Pilot
Generic synonyms: Skilled Worker, Skilled Workman, Trained Worker
Specialized synonyms: Bennett, Floyd Bennett, Bleriot, Louis Bleriot, Cochran, Jacqueline Cochran, Doolittle, James Harold Doolittle, Jimmy Doolittle, Amelia Earhart, Earhart, Howard Hughes, Howard Robard Hughes, Hughes, Charles A. Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Charles Lindbergh, Lindbergh, Lucky Lindy, Billy Mitchell, Mitchell, William Mitchell, Post, Wiley Post
Derivative terms: Airmanship, Aviate, Fly, Fly
3. Noun. An advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution. "He mailed the circular to all subscribers"
Generic synonyms: Ad, Advert, Advertisement, Advertising, Advertizement, Advertizing
Specialized synonyms: Stuffer
Derivative terms: Circularise, Circularise, Circularise, Circularize, Circularize, Circulate
Definition of Flier
1. n. One who flies or flees; a runaway; a fugitive.
2. n. An aëroplane or flying machine.
Definition of Flier
1. Noun. Something that flies. ¹
2. Noun. Someone who pilots or rides in an airplane. ¹
3. Noun. (Mainly US) A leaflet, often for advertising. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Flier
1. one that flies [n -S] - See also: flies
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flier
Literary usage of Flier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Air Service Medical Manual: War Department. Air Service. Division of by Division of Military Aeronautics, United States, War Dept (1918)
"The keynote of the American Air Medical Service is the handling of the flier as
an INDIVIDUAL. During the early part of the war the German method of air ..."
2. Aviation Medicine in the A. E. F. by William Holland Wilmer (1920)
"AVIATION MEDICINE AND THE flier. In the preceding chapter,'the main ... THE SELECTION
OF THE flier. This problem was much the same as it was in America. ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Patents for Useful Inventions: As Enacted and by George Ticknor Curtis (1873)
"Again, the specification says, ' to the bottom of each flier a tube is attached,
as seen at 6, figures 1 and 2,' which is impracticable with an open- flier. ..."
4. Inside the German Empire in the Third Year of the War by Herbert Bayard Swope (1917)
"... lighting technique— British say German fliers hang back—How a war correspondent
saved two lives—How a captured British flier viewed his confinement. ..."
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