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belfast
/ˈbɛlˌfæst/
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What does belfast mean?
proper noun
- The capital and largest city of Northern Ireland.
- A suburb of Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand.
- A town in Mpumalanga, South Africa.
More meanings (14)
proper noun
- A community and rural municipality in Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
- An unincorporated community in Lassen County, California; named for the city in Maine.
- An unincorporated community in Bryan County, Georgia.
- A city, the county seat of Waldo County, Maine.
- A township in Murray County, Minnesota.
- An unincorporated community in Newton County, Missouri.
- A ghost town in Greeley County, Nebraska.
- A town and census-designated place therein, in Allegany County, New York.
- An unincorporated community in Clermont County, Ohio.
- An unincorporated community in Highland County, Ohio.
- A ghost town in Licking County, Ohio.
- A township in Fulton County, Pennsylvania.
- A census-designated place in Plainfield Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania.
- An unincorporated community in Marshall County, Tennessee.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈbɛlˌfæst/
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First class chess enthusiasm and support for the past year has been limited to Newcastle-on-Tyne and Belfast.
The success of all this heavy work, executed for successful owners, put a sort of backbone into the Belfast shipbuilding yard.
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“In the northeast corner of the cemetery of the Protestant Cathedral at Belfast.”
Hence constant discussions and violent disputes between them, Belfast affirming that the projectile could not be seen, J. T. Maston maintaining that “it had put his eyes out.”
A large party had ascended from Belfast, in a monster balloon, under the guidance of Mr. Coxwell, on a day which was very unfit for the purpose by reason of stormy weather.