Flaneur

//flɑˈnʊɚ//

Synonyms for "flaneur" (54 found)

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Translations

26 translations across 12 languages.

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Catalan

1 entries
  • escombracarrers noun (one who wanders aimlessly)

Estonian

1 entries
  • flanöör noun (one who wanders aimlessly)

Finnish

1 entries
  • kuljeskelija noun (one who wanders aimlessly)

French

3 entries
  • baladeur noun (one who wanders aimlessly)
  • flâneur noun (one who wanders aimlessly)
  • promeneur noun (one who wanders aimlessly)

German

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  • Flaneur noun (one who wanders aimlessly)

Italian

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  • bighellone noun (one who wanders aimlessly)
  • perdigiorno noun (one who wanders aimlessly)
  • vitellone noun (one who wanders aimlessly)

Malay

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  • flanur noun (one who wanders aimlessly)
  • pelanur noun (one who wanders aimlessly)

Norwegian

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  • flanør noun (one who wanders aimlessly)

Polish

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  • włóczęga noun (one who wanders aimlessly)

Russian

4 entries
  • бра́жник noun (one who wanders aimlessly)
  • гуля́ка noun (one who wanders aimlessly)
  • кути́ла noun (one who wanders aimlessly)
  • фланёр noun (one who wanders aimlessly)

Spanish

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  • azotacalles noun (one who wanders aimlessly)
  • callejero noun (one who wanders aimlessly)
  • mirón noun (one who wanders aimlessly)
  • paseante ocioso noun (one who wanders aimlessly)

Swedish

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  • flanör noun (one who wanders aimlessly)

Sample sentences

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[…]Bevil drew him up to the door-step of a house close by, where, on certain evenings, a well-known club drew together men who seldom meet so familiarly elsewhere—men of all callings; a club especially favoured by wits, authors, and the flaneurs of polite society.

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It often seemed to Mallet that he wholly lacked the prime requisite of a graceful flâneur—the simple, sensuous, confident relish of pleasure.

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Indeed I lost patience altogether, and asked myself by what right this informal votary of form pretended to run riot through a poor charmed flaneur’s quiet contemplations, his attachment to the noblest of pleasures, his enjoyment of the loveliest of cities.

Source: wiktionary

More than any other urban type, the flaneur suggests the contradictions of the modern city, caught between the insistent mobility of the present and the visible weight of the past.

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