flyer

See also: Flyer

English

Flyer (sense 5) advertising a rave party

Flyers (sense 7)

Alternative forms

• flier (more common in US, except in the sense of “leaflet”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈflaɪə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From fly +‎ -er (agent noun suffix). With regard to the sense "female kangaroo": because of the high speed at which they move.

Noun

flyer (plural flyers)

1. That which flies, as a bird or insect.
2. A machine that flies.
3. (dated) An airplane pilot.

   Synonyms: aviator, aviatrix

4. A person who travels by airplane.
6. A leaflet, often for advertising.

   Synonyms: circular, leaflet

   Coordinate terms: booklet, brochure, catalogue, pamphlet

7. The part of a spinning machine that twists the thread as it takes it to and winds it on the bobbin
9. (architecture) An arch that connects a flying buttress into the structure it supports.
10. (acrobatics, cheerleading, synchronized swimming) A person who is lifted and/or thrown by another person or persons.

    Coordinate term: base

11. (firearms) A stray shot away from the group on a target.
12. A standard rectangular step of a staircase (as opposed to a winder).
13. A female kangaroo; a roo; a doe; a jill.
14. A leap or jump.
15. A risky investment or other venture.
    • 1903, Mark Twain, The $30,000 Bequest:

      It was a great day for the pair of Fosters. They were speechless for joy. Also speechless for another reason: after much watching of the market, Aleck had lately, with fear and trembling, made her first flyer on a “margin,” using the remaining twenty thousand of the bequest in this risk.

16. (informal) A fast-moving person or thing.
    • 1952 December, 'Mercury', “Modern French Locomotive Performance”, in Railway Magazine, pages 808-809:

      An amusing incident on the first of these journeys was the checking by signal of the flyer about 3 miles out of Paris, with the result that it was overhauled by the 6.25 p.m. semi-fast from Paris to Montargis, to the unconcealed delight of passengers in the latter.

    • 1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 593:

      The new Waterloo–Exeter times of the S.R. flyer are 2hr 58min down and 1min more up, in less than 3hr, that is to say, in both directions, with the help of four runs timed at over a mile a minute.

17. (sports) A false start
18. (music) Synonym of flying cymbal

Derived terms

• Baltimore flyer
• blue flyer
• blue pigeon flyer
• flyerer
• frequent flyer
• high-flyer
• high flyer
• paper flyer
• take a flyer

 

Descendants

• → Finnish: flaijeri
• → French: flyer
• → German: Flyer
• → Korean: 플라이어 (peullaieo)
• → Portuguese: flyer

Translations

machine that flies

• Italian: velivolo (it)
• Macedonian: ле́тало n (létalo)
• Portuguese: voador (pt) m
• Russian: лета́тельный аппара́т (ru) m (letátelʹnyj apparát)

someone who pilots or rides in an airplane

• Arabic: طَيَّار (ṭayyār)
• Bulgarian: летец (bg) m (letec)
• Czech: letec (cs) m
• French: pilote (fr)
• German: Flieger (de)
• Irish: eitleoir m
• Italian: volatore
• Macedonian: ле́тач m (létač)
• Polish: awiator (pl) m (archaic), lotnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: piloto (pt) m
• Russian: лётчик (ru) m (ljótčik)
• Spanish: piloto (es)
• Tagalog: manlilipad

leaflet, often for advertising — see also leaflet

• Armenian: թռուցիկ (hy) (tʻṙucʻik), շրջաբերական (hy) (šrǰaberakan)
• Belarusian: лісто́ўка f (listóŭka), улётка f (uljótka)
• Bulgarian: листо́вка (bg) f (listóvka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 傳單／传单 (zh) (chuándān)

• Czech: leták (cs) m
• Dutch: flyer (nl) m
• Estonian: lendleht, flaier
• Finnish: lentolehtinen (fi), lennäkki, mainoslehtinen, joukkokirje
• French: tract (fr), prospectus (fr), flyer (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Flugblatt (de) n, Flyer (de) m, Rundschreiben (de) n, Handzettel (de) m
• Greek: εγκύκλιος (el) f (egkýklios)
• Hebrew: עלון (he) m ('alón), פלייר / פלאייר m (fláyer)
• Irish: bileoigín m
• Italian: annuncio (it), volantino (it), opuscolo (it)
• Japanese: 散らし (ja) (ちらし, chirashi), チラシ (ja) (chirashi), フライヤー (furaiyā), 檄 (ja) (geki)
• Korean: 플라이어 (ko) (peullaieo), 전단(傳單) (ko) (jeondan)
• Macedonian: леток m (letok)
• Maori: mātārere, tawhera
• Norwegian: flyveblad, flygeblad, løpeseddel
• Polish: ulotka (pl) f
• Portuguese: folheto (pt) m, panfleto (pt) m, circular (pt) f
• Romanian: foaie volantă (ro) f
• Russian: листо́вка (ru) f (listóvka), фла́ер (ru) m (flájer)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: летак m

  Roman: letak (sh) m

• Spanish: volante (es) m, octavilla (es) f, circular (es)
• Swedish: cirkulär (sv) n
• Tagalog: palibot
• Thai: ใบปลิว (th) (bai-bpliu)
• Turkish: el ilanı, broşür (tr)
• Ukrainian: листі́вка f (lystívka)
• Vietnamese: tờ quảng cáo, tờ rơi, tờ bướm, truyền đơn (vi) (傳單)
• Walloon: afitchete-riclame (wa) f

part of a spinning machine

• Dutch: vleugel (nl) m
• Finnish: lyhty (fi), siipi (fi)
• French: broche (fr) f, épinglier (fr) m
• German: Spinnflügel m
• Italian: aspo m
• Welsh: fflei m

architecture: connecting arch

• Finnish: tukikaari (fi)
• German: Strebebogen m
• Swedish: strävbåge (sv) c

person who is lifted and/or thrown by another person or persons

• Finnish: nousija (fi)

shooting: stray shot away from the group on a target

standard rectangular step of a staircase

• Bulgarian: стъпало (bg) n (stǎpalo)
• Finnish: suora porras

female kangaroo

• Finnish: naaraskenguru
• Swedish: känguru (sv) c, känguruhona c

leap or jump

• Finnish: loikka (fi)

risky investment or other venture

Verb

flyer (third-person singular simple present flyers, present participle flyering, simple past and past participle flyered)

1. (intransitive) To distribute flyers (leaflets).
   • 2012, Mark Fisher, quoting Neil McKinnon, The Edinburgh Fringe Survival Guide, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 156:

     Neil McKinnon, the Fringe's head of external affairs, asks: Are you flyering in the right place at the right time? How are you flyering? Good flyering is about more than standing there handing out flyers to as many people as you can.

2. (transitive) To distribute flyers in (a location) or to (recipients).

Etymology 2

From fly +‎ -er (comparative suffix).

Adjective

flyer

1. comparative form of fly: more fly

Further reading

• flyer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• refly

French

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English flyer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fla.jœʁ/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

flyer m (plural flyers)

1. flyer (leaflet)

   Synonyms: affiche, affichette

Etymology 2

Derived from English fly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fla.je/

Verb

flyer

1. (North America, intransitive) to flee, to run off; to scram, skedaddle, scarper

Conjugation

This verb is part of a large group of -er verbs that conjugate like noyer or ennuyer. These verbs always replace the 'y' with an 'i' before a silent 'e'.

Conjugation of flyer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	flyer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	flyant /fli.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		flyé /fli.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	flie /fli/	flies /fli/	flie /fli/	flyons /fli.jɔ̃/	flyez /fli.je/	flient /fli/
	imperfect	flyais /fli.jɛ/	flyais /fli.jɛ/	flyait /fli.jɛ/	flyions /flj.jɔ̃/	flyiez /flj.je/	flyaient /fli.jɛ/
	past historic2	flyai /fli.je/	flyas /fli.ja/	flya /fli.ja/	flyâmes /fli.jam/	flyâtes /fli.jat/	flyèrent /fli.jɛʁ/
	future	flierai /fli.ʁe/	flieras /fli.ʁa/	fliera /fli.ʁa/	flierons /fli.ʁɔ̃/	flierez /fli.ʁe/	flieront /fli.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	flierais /fli.ʁɛ/	flierais /fli.ʁɛ/	flierait /fli.ʁɛ/	flierions /fli.ʁjɔ̃/	flieriez /fli.ʁje/	flieraient /fli.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	flie /fli/	flies /fli/	flie /fli/	flyions /flj.jɔ̃/	flyiez /flj.je/	flient /fli/
	imperfect2	flyasse /fli.jas/	flyasses /fli.jas/	flyât /fli.ja/	flyassions /fli.ja.sjɔ̃/	flyassiez /fli.ja.sje/	flyassent /fli.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	flie /fli/	—	flyons /fli.jɔ̃/	flyez /fli.je/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Swedish

Etymology

English flyer.

Declension

Declension of flyer

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	flyer	flyers
	definite	flyern	flyerns
plural	indefinite	flyer	flyers
	definite	flyerna	flyernas

Noun

flyer c

1. flyer (leaflet)
2. frisbee (rare)