DANUBE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Danube mean? 

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

1. the 2nd longest European river (after the Volga); flows from southwestern Germany to the Black Sea

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DANUBE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The 2nd longest European river (after the Volga); flows from southwestern Germany to the Black Sea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Danau; Danube; Danube River

Context example:

Vienna, Budapest, and Belgrade are on the banks of the Danube

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

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

Bulgaria; Republic of Bulgaria (a republic in the eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe)

Czechoslovakia (a former republic in central Europe; divided into Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993)

Deutschland; Federal Republic of Germany; FRG; Germany (a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990)

Romania; Roumania; Rumania (a republic in southeastern Europe with a short coastline on the Black Sea)

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; Jugoslavija; Serbia and Montenegro; Union of Serbia and Montenegro; Yugoslavia (a mountainous republic in southeastern Europe bordering on the Adriatic Sea; formed from two of the six republics that made up Yugoslavia until 1992; Serbia and Montenegro were known as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia until 2003 when they adopted the name of the Union of Serbia and Montenegro)

Austria; Oesterreich; Republic of Austria (a mountainous republic in central Europe; under the Habsburgs (1278-1918) Austria maintained control of the Holy Roman Empire and was a leader in European politics until the 19th century)

Hungary; Magyarorszag; Republic of Hungary (a republic in central Europe)

Ukraine; Ukrayina (a republic in southeastern Europe; formerly a European soviet; the center of the original Russian state which came into existence in the ninth century)

 Context examples 

She is the Czarina Catherine, and she sail from Doolittle's Wharf for Varna, and thence on to other parts and up the Danube.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A chronic tubulointerstitial nephropathy that affects people in certain rural areas along the Danube river in the Balkans.

(Balkan Endemic Nephropathy, NCI Thesaurus)

Here fluttered many an outland pennon, bearing symbol and blazonry from the banks of the Danube, the wilds of Lithuania and the mountain strongholds of Hungary; for chivalry was of no clime and of no race, nor was any land so wild that the fame and name of the prince had not sounded through it from border to border.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Who was it but one of my own race who as Voivode crossed the Danube and beat the Turk on his own ground?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

As he fled back over the Danube, leaving his forces to be cut to pieces, so now he is intent on being safe, careless of all.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He had been paid for his work by an English bank note, which had been duly cashed for gold at the Danube International Bank.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I had to argy wi' them aboot it wi' a handspike; an' when the last o' them rose off the deck wi' his head in his hand, I had convinced them that, evil eye or no evil eye, the property and the trust of my owners were better in my hands than in the river Danube.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Morris Quincey, you see the Vice-Consul, and get his aid with his fellow in Galatz and all he can do to make our way smooth, so that no times be lost when over the Danube.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He was beaten, and when all hope of success was lost, and his existence in danger, he fled back over the sea to his home; just as formerly he had fled back over the Danube from Turkey Land.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

And so, my dear Madam Mina, it is that we have to rest for a time, for our enemy is on the sea, with the fog at his command, on his way to the Danube mouth.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)