Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river of central Europe rising in the Carpathian Mountains in the western Ukraine and flowing about 995 km (620 mi) generally southward across eastern Hungary and northern Serbia to the Danube River.
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- proper noun a river in
Central Europe , mainly flowing through Hungary and Serbia
Etymologies
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Examples
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The most distinctive landmark to the north of the Tisza was a bauxite minehead two miles east of a co-operative farm with maize silos, and I turned my head to the left again and looked down.
The Sinkiang Executive Hall, Adam 1978
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It released 100,000 cubic metres of waste water, heavily contaminated with cyanide, into tributaries of the Tisza river, which flows through Hungary.
Hungary toxic sludge spill an 'ecological catastrophe' says government Mark Tran 2010
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Peter Kohalmi/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Long-tailed mayflies danced around each on the surface of the Tisza river near Tiszafured, about 90 miles east of Budapest.
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Peter Kohalmi/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Long-tailed mayflies danced around each on the surface of the Tisza river near Tiszafured, about 90 miles east of Budapest.
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The larvae live under water for three years, and then millions of these short-lived mayflies engage in a frantic rush to mate and reproduce before they perish in just a few hours during 'Tiszaviragzas' or Tisza blooming season from late spring to early summer.
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The larvae live under water for three years, and then millions of these short-lived mayflies engage in a frantic rush to mate and reproduce before they perish in just a few hours during 'Tiszaviragzas' or Tisza blooming season from late spring to early summer.
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But in the year 2000, the cyanide lake broke, and wound its way into the valley and the river Tisza and the Danube, rendering the valley sterile and dangerous and the fish poisoned.
Archive 2009-05-01 Bill Powell 2009
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In eastern Hungary in June, I walk along the banks of the river Tisza.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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Attila was supposed to be buried in three coffins somewhere in the river Tisza and the stream was supposed to have been dammed for the funeral, to be undammed afterwards.
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The Hungarians, or Magyars, organized in a number of tribes, occupied the valley of the middle Danube and Theiss (Tisza).
e. Hungary 2001
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