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DANUBE RIVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Danube River mean? 

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

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

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


 Dictionary entry details 


DANUBE RIVER (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 River" 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)


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