BELFAST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Belfast mean? 

• BELFAST (noun)
  The noun BELFAST has 1 sense:

1. capital and largest city of Northern Ireland; the center of Protestantism in Northern Ireland

  Familiarity information: BELFAST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BELFAST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Capital and largest city of Northern Ireland; the center of Protestantism in Northern Ireland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Belfast; capital of Northern Ireland

Instance hypernyms:

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

Holonyms ("Belfast" is a part of...):

Northern Ireland (a division of the United Kingdom located on the northern part of the island of Ireland)

 Context examples 

That night I made up the packet for Sarah Cushing, and next day I sent it from Belfast.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Professor Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at the Queen’s University Belfast Astrophysics Research Centre warned that it is a case of when, rather than if, an asteroid collision will happen.

(Dangerous Asteroid Could Hit Earth At Any Moment, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Based on photographs of RMS Titanic at the shipyard that built it in Belfast, Ireland, he suggested fire by spotting large black streaks in the region struck by the iceberg.

(UK documentary claims fire weakened RMS Titanic, Wikinews)

After painstaking measurements from multiple instruments at ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), the team led by Tom Seccull of Queen’s University Belfast in the UK was able to measure the composition of the anomalous Kuiper Belt Object 2004 EW95, and thus determine that it is a carbonaceous asteroid.

(Exiled Asteroid Discovered in Outer Reaches of Solar System, ESO)

The box had been sent by parcel post from Belfast upon the morning before.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Some probability is lent to the theory by the fact that one of these students came from the north of Ireland, and, to the best of Miss Cushing’s belief, from Belfast.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You will observe that this line of boats calls at Belfast, Dublin, and Waterford; so that, presuming that Browner had committed the deed and had embarked at once upon his steamer, the May Day, Belfast would be the first place at which he could post his terrible packet.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We have, of course, wired to the Belfast post-office, but a large number of parcels were handed in upon that day, and they have no means of identifying this particular one, or of remembering the sender.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)