flatlander
noun
a person who lives in a flatland.
flatlanders
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pluralof flatlander.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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“Ah, Fall. Foliage, flatlanders, and frustration,” his website reads.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2025
Miners hauled in hydraulic equipment to dig and dredge and strip the mountains, polluting the runoff so badly that in 1874, the flatlanders who depended on that water went to court to stop the despoiling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2025
“We were flatlanders from Michigan. I had never seen a lake that was so blissfully blue and have always remembered learning about glacier silt that absorbs and scatters sunlight across that spectrum.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 2021
We are flatlanders, failing to perceive a much richer universe around us, deluded by the idea of sequential time.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2019
The flatlanders who invaded the Cheat Mountain country had been suckled in another creed, and to them western Virginia—there was, as yet, no West Virginia—was an enchanted land.
From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 by Ambrose Bierce
