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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A river rising in the Cantabrian Mountains of northern Spain and flowing about 925 km (575 mi) to the Mediterranean Sea southwest of Barcelona.

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  • proper noun a river in Spain that flows into the Mediterranean

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  • noun a river in northeastern Spain; flows into the Mediterranean

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Examples

  • And the Ebro, which is in Catalonia, is unquestionably the Euphrates, both beginning with an E.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • For 350 EARTH, Rodriguez-Gerada designed the image of a girl form the coastal community of Delta d'Ebro which is threatened by climate change, especially sea-level rise and the resulting coastal erosion and salinization of fresh water supplies.

    Jamie Henn: Can art save the climate? 350 EARTH Jamie Henn 2010

  • For 350 EARTH, Rodriguez-Gerada designed the image of a girl form the coastal community of Delta d'Ebro which is threatened by climate change, especially sea-level rise and the resulting coastal erosion and salinization of fresh water supplies.

    Jamie Henn: Can art save the climate? 350 EARTH Jamie Henn 2010

  • The biggest mountain ranges and rivers (like the Duero) mostly run right to left (except a few that run left to right, like the Ebro).

    At-a-glance guide to Spain 2011

  • Mirandes, only the second team from Spain's Segunda B to reach the last four of the cup in its present format, gave themselves hope of pulling off another upset with a late goal in Tuesday's first leg at their tiny stadium in Miranda de Ebro as a Fernando Llorente double gave Bilbao a 2-1 success.

    Valencia 1-1 Barcelona | Copa del Rey semi-final first leg 2012

  • When you look at Edward Wadsworth's worthy woodcut of a Yorkshire village (1914), it's difficult not to prefer the original, Picasso's Factory: Horta de Ebro (1909).

    Vorticism: the biz of the buzz – review 2011

  • Born in the north of Spain in Miranda de Ebro, a city near the Rioja region, Mr. Bieito grew up on the frontier between Castilian and Basque cultural influences; as a teenager, he moved to Barcelona and quickly became inspired by the heady re-emergence of Catalan culture in the years following the death of Franco.

    Calixto Bieito's Second Act J. S. Marcus 2011

  • The company has taken over more than a dozen brands, including the Galbani cheese company of Italy, Lauki of Spain, U.S. company Rondele and the Lubborn creamery in the U.K. Last year Lactalis received European Union clearance to buy Puleva Foods, a milk-product unit of Spain's Ebro Foods SA, for €630 million.

    Lactalis Bids for Rest of Parmalat Christopher Emsden 2011

  • Prominent in the successful fights against Spain's participation in the Iraq invasion and against the transfer to southern Spain of waters from the Ebro river, he was a fresh and heterodox politician.

    José Antonio Labordeta obituary Michael Eaude 2010

  • No way, retorts Jorge Ebro, who covers the Heat for El Nuevo Herald, Miami's leading Spanish newspaper.

    Talking Basketball, in Spanish, Is Definitely No Slam Dunk Joel Millman 2011

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