Vardar

American  

[vahr-dahr] / ˈvɑr dɑr /

noun

1. a river in S Europe, flowing from NW Macedonia through N Greece into the Gulf of Salonika. 200 miles (322 km) long.

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Vardar British  

/ ˈvardar /

noun

1. a river in S Europe, rising in W Macedonia and flowing northeast, then south past Skopje into Greece, where it is called the Axios and enters the Aegean at Thessaloníki. Length: about 320 km (200 miles)

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Example Sentences

Vardar’s academy attracted the most talented prospects in Macedonia, and the competition for places — even for preteen boys — was fierce.

From New York Times

Andonovski spent 10 years in the Vardar academy.

From New York Times

Groomed at Vardar, he later played as a central defender for a number of Macedonian professional clubs, always with the hope that he might get noticed, that he might move on to one of Europe’s bigger, richer, more prestigious leagues.

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That is when Delevski, who had left Vardar to live as a foreign exchange student in the United States, changed the path of Andonovski’s career.

From New York Times

In June 2018, a Vardar Skopje fan was killed in broad daylight at a bus stop; two fans of Shkupi, a team from an ethnic Albanian neighborhood in the capital, ended up in prison.

From New York Times