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say it: BEL-fast
belfast is a noun meaning "capital and largest city of Northern Ireland; the center of Protestantism in Northern Ireland". It is pronounced /ˈbɛlˌfæst/ — BEL-fast. It carries one recorded sense.
capital and largest city of Northern Ireland; the center of Protestantism in Northern Ireland
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for belfast come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.