Mures

American  

[moor-esh] / ˈmʊər ɛʃ /

noun

1. a river in SE central Europe, flowing W from the Carpathian Mountains in central Romania to the Tisza River in S Hungary. 400 miles (645 km) long.

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Mureş British  

/ ˈmʊərɛʃ /

noun

1. Hungarian name: Maros.  a river in SE central Europe, rising in central Romania in the Carpathian Mountains and flowing west to the Tisza River at Szeged, Hungary. Length: 885 km (550 miles)

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Example Sentences

The Shabbat service is about to start at the Status Quo synagogue in Targu Mures, a city in central Romania.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2019

"The real anti-Semitism is ignorance," says Vasile Dub, as the handful of elderly worshippers files out of the synagogue at Targu Mures.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2019

Last year, the mayor of Tirgu Mures, a city in Transylvania, proposed applying for EU cash to help promote the region using the legend of Dracula.

From Slate • Aug. 29, 2014

He studied first in Cluj and then pursued a specialty in anesthesia and critical care in Targu Mures, a city of around 150,000 in Transylvania.

From New York Times • Feb. 11, 2012

In the feuds of Humes and Heatleys, Cunninghams, Montgomeries, Mures, Ogilvies, and Turnbulls, we find them inconspicuously involved, and apparently getting rather better than they gave.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis