Moldau

/ ˈmɔldau /

noun

1. the German name for Moldavia
2. the German name for the Vltava

Example Sentences

Englar became the first WSU men’s pole vault Pac-12 champion since Sander Moldau won the event in 2018.

From Seattle Times

Smetana’s “Moldau” gurgles and flows from source to city.

From New York Times

In the summer of 1911, from his apartment and office on opposite banks of the Vltava River—known as the Moldau in German, and thus to Einstein, who knew no Czech—Einstein shifted his attentions away from the burgeoning quantum theory and toward a new theory of gravity.

From Scientific American

He wrote about a dozen ideas based on the script, some of which made it into the film — but Malick ultimately favored an eclectic array of concert music, from Smetana’s “The Moldau” to a series of requiems and funeral music by Berlioz, Górecki and Zbigniew Preisner.

From Los Angeles Times

“There used to be saying, going way back, that ‘the times are going to be best when Russian horses drink from the Moldau River in Prague.’

From Los Angeles Times