Fünen
noun
German name of Fyn.
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Fünen
American
[fy-nuhn]
/ ˈfü nən /
noun
Funen
British
/ ˈfuːnən /
noun
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Once Brecht settled with his family on the island of Fünen, in Denmark, he set to work in a whitewashed stable.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 3, 2019
Belt, Great and Little, gateways of the Baltic: the Great between Zealand and Fünen, 15 m. broad; the Little, between Fünen and Jutland, half as broad; both 70 m. long, the former of great depth.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin
The two largest islands are Fünen and Seeland, which are separated by the Great Belt, and the former from the main land by the Little Belt.
From Up The Baltic Young America in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark by Optic, Oliver
The Danes were mainly in Jutland, Fünen, and the extreme south of Scandinavia.
From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, Cuthbert
I had hurried across the heath, and over Jutland's wood-girt eastern coast, and over the Island of Fünen, and now I drove over the Great Belt, groaning and sighing.
From What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales by Dulcken, H. W. (Henry William)
The Great Belt is the strait between Denmark’s two largest islands, Zealand and Funen, and is part of the main shipping route between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2024
The three-week race includes two more stages in Denmark, including crossing the Great Belt Bridge that links the Zealand island, where Copenhagen sits and the central isle of Funen.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 1, 2022
There are two more stages in Denmark this weekend, including crossing the Great Belt Bridge that links the Zealand island, where Copenhagen sits, and the central isle of Funen.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2022
The accident took place on a road-and-rail bridge, part of the Storebaelt system of bridges and a tunnel linking the Danish islands of Zealand and Funen.
From Fox News ● Jan. 2, 2019
The marsk, at this instant perhaps, burns one half of Funen with--" "Just Providence!" exclaimed Drost Peter, "when stood a Danish king so surrounded by foes and traitors!
From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Ingemann, Bernhard Severin
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