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• Fünen
  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.

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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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Example Sentences

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 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 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