German

Noun

Flaneur m ‎(genitive Flaneurs, plural Flaneure)

1. flâneur, stroller

Declension

Synonyms

• Spaziergänger

Related terms

• flanieren

English

Noun

flaneur ‎(plural flaneurs)

1. One who wanders aimlessly, who roams, who travels at a lounging pace.
   • 2009, Barry Estabrook, Gourmet October 2009, "Good Living", page 57

     Portsmouth is a flaneur’s dream come true, a place that simply begs to be explored randomly and on foot.

   • 2014 August 23, Neil Hegarty, “Hidden City: Adventures and Explorations in Dublin by Karl Whitney, review: 'a necessary corrective' [print version: Re-Joycing in Dublin, p. R25]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):

     In observing Dublin in this way – its cultural and geographic context, its streets and skies, neighbours and wider world – Whitney is occupying consciously the role of flâneur, defined by Beaudelaire as "a lounger or saunterer, an idle man about town", a gatherer of aesthetic impressions.

2. An idler, a loafer.

Derived terms

• cyberflaneur

Translations

Anagrams

• frenula
• funeral

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

flaneur m ‎(plural flaneurs, diminutive flaneurtje n)

1. A person who walks the city in order to experience it.
2. (Belgium) A saunterer; a lounger.

Related terms

• flaneren