Belgium

[ bel-juhm ]

noun

1. a kingdom in W Europe, bordering the North Sea, N of France. 11,779 sq. mi. (30,508 sq. km). : Brussels.

Belgium

/ ˈbɛldʒəm /

noun

1. a federal kingdom in NW Europe: at various times under the rulers of Burgundy, Spain, Austria, France, and the Netherlands before becoming an independent kingdom in 1830. It formed the Benelux customs union with the Netherlands and Luxembourg in 1948 and and was a founder member of the Common Market, now the European Union. It consists chiefly of a low-lying region of sand, woods, and heath (the Campine) in the north and west, and a fertile undulating central plain rising to the Ardennes Mountains in the southeast. Languages: French, Flemish (Dutch), German. Religion: Roman Catholic majority. Currency: euro. Capital: Brussels. Pop: 10 444 268 (2013 est). Area: 30 513 sq km (11 778 sq miles)

Belgium

1. Monarchy in northwestern Europe , bordered by the North Sea and The Netherlands to the north, Germany and Luxembourg to the east, and France to the south. Its capital and largest city is Brussels .

Notes

Headquarters for the EU and for NATO .

Example Sentences

She isn’t the target of Rwandan spies hunting her famous family in Belgium.

From Washington Post

Her sister Lina, who is based in Belgium, had days before warned that Loujain’s expected release from prison would not be the end of her treatment.

From Time

Germany comes next, and Denmark and Belgium aren’t far behind.

From Singularity Hub 

For Q1 2021, DuckDuckGo will only appear on the screen for users in Belgium.

From Search Engine Land

Losada, a former Beerschot midfielder, spent most of his playing career in Belgium.

From Washington Post

Other cases were reported in the 1990s in Italy and Belgium.

From The Daily Beast

Duncan arrived at Dulles International Airport in Washington from Liberia (via Belgium) on Sept. 20.

From The Daily Beast

After following the epidemic closely from his native Belgium, Colebunders is extremely hopeful that the answer will be the blood.

From The Daily Beast

Prior to her arrest, Johnson was living under partial immunity in Gent, Belgium, while a case was being built against her.

From The Daily Beast

Wendig in Munich in 1943, who asked him to travel to Belgium to purchase gold, jewelry, and pictures.

From The Daily Beast

I presume there will be more middling and half middling yields within twenty miles of Paris than in all Belgium.

From Project Gutenberg

It is not quite so level nor so perfectly cultivated as central Belgium, but is generally fertile and promises fairly.

From Project Gutenberg

We re-visited Paris, but spent most of our three weeks in a tour through Belgium, finishing up at Brussels.

From Project Gutenberg

Courage, my child,” he says; “see, we have gone a great distance; to-morrow before sundown we shall descend in Belgium.

From Project Gutenberg

In the cave of Naulette, near Dinant, Belgium, has been found the lower jaw of a man of decidedly ape-like aspect.

From Project Gutenberg