Definitions

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  • adjective Pertaining to, or bordering on, the Danube river in Europe.
  • noun historical A member of one of the early human cultures which were centred in the Danube basin, such as the Linear Pottery culture or the Vučedol culture.

Etymologies

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Danube +‎ -ian

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Examples

  • "Our blood kindred from the Danubian plains have heard the call of our war horn, and after a millennium is the Magyar saber once again raised to fight side by side with the Finnish sword."

    DBTL 19A: Testvér a Testvérért Johnny Pez 2010

  • "Our blood kindred from the Danubian plains have heard the call of our war horn, and after a millennium is the Magyar saber once again raised to fight side by side with the Finnish sword."

    Archive 2010-01-01 Johnny Pez 2010

  • Some obvious bargains included a lovely stater of the Danubian Celts that was conservatively estimated at $750 and slipped under the radar at $400.

    The ACCG Benefit Auction nets $45,811 in active bidding. : Coin Collecting News 2008

  • The agricultural economy of the Danubian countries, 1935-45 (Food, agriculture, and World War II) by Slavcho Zagorov

    The Real Dirt on a Sustainable Economy 2009

  • Some obvious bargains included a lovely stater of the Danubian Celts that was conservatively estimated at $750 and slipped under the radar at $400.

    The ACCG Benefit Auction nets $45,811 in active bidding. : Coin Collecting News 2008

  • So here, with an appropriately Danubian breath of fresh air, is Andras Schiff evidently filmed some years ago and relayed somewhere interesting in the Far East playing Schubert's Hungarian Melody.

    Going all Austro-Hungarian Jessica 2007

  • So here, with an appropriately Danubian breath of fresh air, is Andras Schiff evidently filmed some years ago and relayed somewhere interesting in the Far East playing Schubert's Hungarian Melody.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Jessica 2007

  • Emmy had passed blushing through the room anon, where all sorts of people were collected; Tyrolese glove-sellers and Danubian linen-merchants, with their packs; students recruiting themselves with butterbrods and meat; idlers, playing cards or dominoes on the sloppy, beery tables; tumblers refreshing during the cessation of their performances — in a word, all the fumum and strepitus of

    Vanity Fair 2006

  • If anyone can speak Magyar, the great online resource is Magyar Pallas Lexikon, a work which was originally published in the gran old days of the Danubian monarchy.

    languagehat.com: BECS. 2004

  • This was hurriedly concluded in 1812 by the Treaty of Bucharest, which gave Russia not only Bessarabia, but rather extensive rights in the Danubian Principalities.

    8. Eastern Europe and the Balkans, 1762-1914 2001

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