Word.ws English Dictionary

Great Belt

Great Belt proper noun: a strait in Denmark between the islands of Funen (Danish Fyn) and Zealand (Danish Sjælland).

great belt: a strait in Denmark between the islands of Funen (Danish Fyn) and Zealand (Danish Sjælland)
Image: Lencer, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Proper noun

the Great Belt

  1. A strait in Denmark between the islands of Funen (Danish Fyn) and Zealand (Danish Sjælland).

Origin of Great Belt

A literal translation of Danish Storebælt.

Questions about Great Belt

What does Great Belt mean?
Great Belt means a strait in Denmark between the islands of Funen (Danish Fyn) and Zealand (Danish Sjælland).
What part of speech is Great Belt?
Great Belt is a proper noun.

Words near Great Belt in the dictionary

  1. Great Bavington
  2. Great Bay
  3. Great Bear
  4. Great Bear Lake
  5. Great Bedwyn
  6. Great Belt
  7. Great Bend
  8. Great Bentley
  9. Great Bernera
  10. great beyond
  11. great bifurcation

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Great Belt (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Great Belt.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/great_belt. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.