Morava

[ Czech, Serbo-Croatian. maw-rah-vah ]

noun

1. German March. a river in central Europe, flowing S from NE Czech Republic, along part of the border between the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and Slovakia and Austria, into the Danube W of Bratislava. 240 miles (385 km) long.
2. a river in E Serbia, flowing N to the Danube. 134 miles (216 km) long.
3. Czech name of Moravia.

Morava

/ məˈrɑːvə /

noun

1. a river in central Europe, rising in the Sudeten Mountains, in the Czech Republic, and flowing south through Slovakia to the Danube: forms part of the border between the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Austria. Length: 370 km (230 miles) German nameMarch
2. a river in E Serbia, formed by the confluence of the Southern Morava and the Western Morava near Stalac: flows north to the Danube. Length: 209 km (130 miles)
3. ˈmɔrava the Czech name for Moravia

Example Sentences

Before the Second World War, Helena Malíková grew up in Uherské Hradiště, a town in Czechoslovakia, where her family lived with other Roma in a settlement of old freight wagons lined up behind a sugar factory, near the Morava River.

From New York Times

Filip Svrcek cast his eye along the snow-covered banks of the River Morava, watching the grey-green mass flowing towards a weir and hydroelectric power station from the 1930s.

From BBC

Gales on the roads in Slovenia were strong enough to knock her off her bike and, when the snow began to melt, the raging Morava River separated her from Roz.

From Washington Post

“I want to make sure that the Slovakian people understand that America is engaged, we’re back,” he said at a brief ceremony at Slovakia’s “Gate of Freedom” - a memorial on the banks of the Morava River at the Slovakian border with Austria that commemorates the 400 people killed at the borders of the former Czechoslovakia while attempting to escape the Iron Curtain between1945 and 1989.

From Washington Times

Elas se mudaram com o pai de Alícia e namorado de Íris de 19 anos, Túlio Martins de Cristo, para a casa onde a mãe dele morava.

From New York Times