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flatlander

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A being that lives in a flat world and cannot see height

noun
/ˈflætˌlændər/

Literature

: habitante de un plano

Examples

And then one day a flatlander had this outrageous, heretical, preposterous idea.
" This from Annatheres, who had inherited from her mother, a flatlander, three copies of the Ladies Afternoon Journal: January 1891, February 1895, and the general favorite in the village, July 1900.

Fiction book (1999)
In that relatively short mile-and-a-half trail, one ascends some 1,030 feet—an invigorating walk for someone who has spent the last decade as a flatlander.

Academic text (1998)
In Edwin A. Abbott's novella, a flatlander struggles to understand the concept of three-dimensional space.
The protagonist, a flatlander, learns valuable lessons about perspective and creativity.
Many readers resonate with the flatlander in the story, who is confined to a two-dimensional existence.

Surface Forms

flatlander singular

flatlanders plural

Morphology

flatlander = flatland (semi-transparent) = flat + land + er

The word is built transparently from 'flatland' plus '-er', but this sense is specialized to a fictional inhabitant of a two-dimensional world.

Etymology

Flatlander comes from the book Flatland, which imagines people living in a perfectly flat world with no height or depth, and the part -lander means 'person from a land', like in islander. So a flatlander is a person from a flat place — in the story a two-dimensional being.