EBRO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ebro mean? 

• EBRO (noun)
  The noun EBRO has 1 sense:

1. a river in northeastern Spain; flows into the Mediterranean

  Familiarity information: EBRO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EBRO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A river in northeastern Spain; flows into the Mediterranean

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Ebro; Ebro River

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

Holonyms ("Ebro" is a part of...):

Espana; Kingdom of Spain; Spain (a parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; a former colonial power)

 Context examples 

“I would that we were upon the far side of Ebro again, for there is neither honor nor profit to be gained here. What say you, Simon?”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“What ho! my knight-errant of Twynham!” said a voice, “You are off to Ebro, I hear; and, by the holy fish of Tobias! you must take me under your banner.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For a moment a wild hope came upon them that perhaps the prince had moved more swiftly than had been planned, that he had crossed the Ebro, and that this was his vanguard sweeping to the attack.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So for two days they pushed their way through the wild places of Navarre, past Fuente, over the rapid Ega, through Estella, until upon a winter's evening the mountains fell away from in front of them, and they saw the broad blue Ebro curving betwixt its double line of homesteads and of villages.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)