Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: flier
IPA transcription: [fl'aɪɚ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: circular, handbill, bill, broadside, broadsheet, flier, flyer, throwaway
    Meaning: an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution; "he mailed the circular to all subscribers"
  • Synonyms: aviator, aeronaut, airman, flier, flyer
    Meaning: someone who operates an aircraft
  • Synonyms: flier, flyer
    Meaning: someone who travels by air
Usage examples
  • Then he returned to the flier.
  • "We'll start our flier from the lake and leave the boat as a base to come back to."
  • His flier was rushing swiftly above a barren, ochre plain--the world-old bottom of a long-dead Martian sea.
  • One of them came forward with a sketch of our flier, asking by signs if we were the aerial visitors they had seen.
  • Scarce had the flier found its speed ere the man, wrapping his sleeping silks and furs about him, stretched at full length upon the narrow deck to sleep.
  • Smith-Oldwick, in recalling the long months of arduous training he had undergone himself before he had been considered sufficiently adept to be considered a finished flier, smiled at the conceit of the ignorant African who was already demanding that he be permitted to make a flight alone.
  • With a word of farewell he touched the button which controlled the repulsive rays, and as the flier rose lightly into the air, the engine purred in answer to the touch of his finger upon a second button, the propellers whirred as his hand drew back the speed lever, and Carthoris, Prince of Helium, was off into the gorgeous Martian night beneath the hurtling moons and the million stars.