flier

«flier» in Mova's school dictionary: a person or thing that flies, such as a pilot, a bird or… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a flier, fliers); also spelled flyer

meaning for a pupil

1) A flier is a person or thing that flies, such as a pilot, a bird or a passenger on planes. tree →

2) A flier is also a sheet of paper advertising something, handed out or put through letterboxes; this is more often spelled flyer. tree →

3) (informal) A fast runner or a very quick start, as in «get off to a flier». tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life fliers advertise school fairs, pizza shops and lost pets. In stories about planes it means pilot or traveller. Phrases: «frequent flier», «hand out fliers», «a high flier» (someone very successful), «get off to a flier».

examples

• We handed out fliers for the school fair. tree →
• A flier for a new pizza place came through the door. tree →
• My dad is a frequent flier because he travels for work. tree →
• The early fliers built planes out of wood and cloth. tree →
• Swifts are amazing fliers that hardly ever land. tree →
• She is a high flier and got top marks. tree →
• Our team got off to a flier and scored in the first minute. tree →
• We made a flier about the missing cat. tree →

note

Both «flier» and «flyer» are correct; «flyer» is more common for the paper and in the UK. Plural fliers or flyers. A «high flier» is a person who succeeds, not a bird.

In the corpora

• The largest fliers ever, pterosaurs like Quetzalcoatlus, had wings about 10 metres across but were light, with hollow bones.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «flier» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.