Associations to the word «Danube»

Wiktionary

DANUBE, proper noun. (geography) A river of Europe, which arises in Germany, and flows 2850 km (1775 miles) to the Black Sea in Romania.
DANUBE BLEAK, noun. A species of ray-finned fish in the Cyprinidae family (Chalcalburnus chalcoides, Alburnus chalcoides)
DANUBE SALMON, noun. (Hucho hucho), a species of freshwater fish in the salmon family (Salmonidae) of order Salmoniformes
DANUBE SWABIAN, noun. (often in the plural) A member or descendant of any of the unrelated, usually non-Swabian groups of Germans that settled along the Danube and elsewhere in southeastern Europe (not including the Carpathian Germans or Transylvanian Saxons).
DANUBE SWABIANS, noun. Plural of Danube Swabian

Dictionary definition

DANUBE, noun. The 2nd longest European river (after the Volga); flows from southwestern Germany to the Black Sea; "Vienna, Budapest, and Belgrade are on the banks of the Danube".

Wise words

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