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Vardar

Vardar proper noun: a river in Southeastern Europe, which arises in North Macedonia and flows to the Aegean Sea in Greece.

Proper noun

Vardar

  1. A river in Southeastern Europe, which arises in North Macedonia and flows to the Aegean Sea in Greece.
    • Departure from Salonica is at 7.10 a.m., and the train heads west over the dreary plain and crosses the Vardar, called in modern Greek the Axios, near the station of that name.1951 November, 'Pausanias', “To Greece by the "Simplon-Orient Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 731
    Synonyms:
    Axios

Synonyms of Vardar

Origin of Vardar

From Ancient Greek Βαρδάριος (Bardários), possibly of Thracian origin, from an earlier *Vardários, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)wordo- *wori- (“black water”). More at Vardar.

Words formed from Vardar

Questions about Vardar

What does Vardar mean?
Vardar means a river in Southeastern Europe, which arises in North Macedonia and flows to the Aegean Sea in Greece.
What part of speech is Vardar?
Vardar is a proper noun.

Words near Vardar in the dictionary

  1. Vardaman
  2. Vardamans
  3. Vardan
  4. vardapet
  5. vardapets
  6. Vardar
  7. Vardarian
  8. Vardaric
  9. Varden
  10. vardenafil
  11. Vardenis

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