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    Fünen
    noun
    German name of Fyn.
  • Funen
    Funen
    noun
    the second largest island of Denmark, between the Jutland peninsula and the island of Zealand. Pop: 441 795 (2003 est). Area: 3481 sq km (1344 sq miles)

Fünen

American  
[fy-nuhn] / ˈfü nən /

noun

  1. German name of Fyn.


Funen British  
/ ˈfuːnən /

noun

  1. German name: Fünen.  Danish name: Fyn.  the second largest island of Denmark, between the Jutland peninsula and the island of Zealand. Pop: 441 795 (2003 est). Area: 3481 sq km (1344 sq miles)

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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

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 Oliver Optic

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 P. Austin Nuttall

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 H. W. (Henry William) Dulcken

"Are you afraid of the water?" asked my brisk uncle from Fünen one day.

From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Georg Morris Cohen Brandes

The bones of Koelbjerg Man, recovered in 1941 on the Danish island of Funen, date to 8000 B.C.

From New York Times Jan. 30, 2023

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

It has already been noticed that he was probably acquainted with the south of Sweden, and his four Scandinavian islands are evidently Zealand, Funen, Laland, and Falster.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson by William Stevenson

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