English Dictionary

flatlander

noun

(Western US, especially in the Rocky Mountains) Anyone from the East; anyone from outside the Rockies. / (Appalachia) Any outsider to Appalachia.

I met a friendly flatlander while hiking in the mountains.

意味（1）

(Western US, especially in the Rocky Mountains) Anyone from the East; anyone from outside the Rockies.

[...as] Rocky Mountain News termed it. Although some potential visitors would wonder whether it was safe, especially flatlanders unaccustomed to mountain driving, Trail Ridge provided a perfect roadbed […]

意味（2）

(Appalachia) Any outsider to Appalachia.

Briefly put, the image of the poor in Appalachia imposed by the poverty workers on these people relies on a faulty model. […] In their own efforts to explain the wary attitudes of Appalachian people toward flatlanders, the poverty workers […]

意味（3）

(northern New England) Any non-native, but particularly one from southern New England (including Massachusetts), downstate New York, or New Jersey.

[…] Abenaki resistance in the eighteenth century than with the westward migration of New Englanders in the nineteenth century, but the Abenakis initiated that now time-honored Vermont tradition of discouraging flatlanders from settling here.

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(Upper Peninsula of Michigan) Anyone from Wisconsin.

意味（5）

(Northern Michigan) Anyone from lower Michigan (those below Mt. Pleasant).

意味（6）

(lower Michigan) Anyone from Indiana or Ohio.

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(Wisconsin) Anyone from Illinois.

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(Canada) Anyone from Saskatchewan.

意味（9）

(Georgia) Anyone from Florida.

意味（10）

(Central Coast NSW) Anyone from Umina.

He was drinking a cup of good Jamaican coffee. Gaunt, who seemed like one hell of a nice fellow for a flatlander, had insisted that he have one.

意味（11）

(physics) An inhabitant of or observer in a universe with two spatial dimensions.

To the flatlander the third dimension necessarily appears to be a process, something he travels through as he moves or is shifted across an area. He cannot occupy more than one position in the third dimension simultaneously.

意味（12）

(cycling) A flatland BMX rider.