Definition of "Flanders"

Flanders

/ˈflɑːn.dəz/

proper noun
countable and uncountable, plural Flanderses
1. The County of Flanders, a historical county of Europe, of varying extent.
  Quotations
  When you went / Ambassador to the Emperor, you made bold / To carry into Flanders the great seal.
  1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene ii]
2. A community and administrative region in the north of Belgium, consisting of the Dutch-speaking area of Belgium.
3. Two provinces in Belgian Flanders, West-Flanders and East-Flanders.
4. Ellipsis of French Flanders, a former province of France, now constituting the French department Nord.
5. The principal railway station in Lille, capital of the above.
6. A surname.