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  • noun pejorative A person who lives at low altitude - used by those living at higher altitudes
  • noun physics An inhabitant of or observer in a universe with two spatial dimensions.

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Examples

  • I grew up as something native Vermonters refer to as a flatlander, a person from New York or New Jersey who visits the state to ski, to hike, to watch the leaves turn in the fall.

    Water Witches Chris Bohjalian 1995

  • Everywhere in human space a flatlander is a schnook who never gets above the atmosphere.

    Crashlander Niven, Larry 1994

  • Everywhere in human space a flatlander is a schnook who never gets above the atmosphere.

    Neutron Star Niven, Larry 1969

  • Everywhere in human space a flatlander is a schnook who never gets above the atmosphere.

    Neutron Star Niven, Larry 1968

  • A lifelong actor and performer, Lorber — a Democrat — got into politics in 2005 when he ran for and won election to a House seat in Burlington, despite being a "flatlander" — or non-native Vermonter.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Will 2008

  • A lifelong actor and performer, Lorber — a Democrat — got into politics in 2005 when he ran for and won election to a House seat in Burlington, despite being a "flatlander" — or non-native Vermonter.

    DesignerBlog Will 2008

  • The bartender welcomed me as a "flatlander" which I guess I am, but only by residence, not by spirit.

    badger Diary Entry badger 2003

  • The thing I didn’t know about mountains when I was what my husband rudely calls a flatlander and the rest of the world calls a Midwesterner is that often the valleys between mountain peaks are significantly higher than sea level.

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch » 2009 » November » 05 2009

  • The thing I didn’t know about mountains when I was what my husband rudely calls a flatlander and the rest of the world calls a Midwesterner is that often the valleys between mountain peaks are significantly higher than sea level.

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch » Freelancer’s Survival Guide Success Part 5 2009

  • The beleaguering mountains smelled a flatlander when they saw one, and hated me right back.

    A June Defection Berit Ellingsen 2011

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  • In northern New England this refers to any non-native, but especially to someone from southern New England.

    December 30, 2007