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say it: FLIN-durz
flinders is a noun meaning "British explorer who mapped the Australian coast (1774-1814)". It is pronounced /ˈflɪndɚz/ — FLIN-durz. It carries 2 recorded senses.
British explorer who mapped the Australian coast (1774-1814)
bits and splinters and fragments
“it would have shattered in flinders long before it did that damage”
plural
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for flinders come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.