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DANUBE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The 2nd longest European river (after the Volga); flows from southwestern Germany to the Black Sea
Example:
Vienna, Budapest, and Belgrade are on the banks of the Danube
Synonyms:
Danau; Danube; Danube River
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
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:
The impression I had was that we were leaving the West and entering the East; the most western of splendid bridges over the Danube, which is here of noble width and depth, took us among the traditions of Turkish rule.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Dr. Van Helsing described what steps were taken during the day to discover on what boat and whither bound Count Dracula made his escape:—As I knew that he wanted to get back to Transylvania, I felt sure that he must go by the Danube mouth; or by somewhere in the Black Sea, since by that way he come.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
