Meanings
- A river in Southeastern Europe, which arises in North Macedonia and flows to the Aegean Sea in Greece.
Departure from Salonica is at 7.10 a.m., and the train heads west over the dreary plain and crosses the Vardar, called in modern Greek the Axios, near the station of that name.
1951 November, 'Pausanias', “To Greece by the "Simplon-Orient Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 731Synonyms: Axios
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounA river in Southeastern Europe, which arises in North Macedonia and flows to the Aegean Sea in Greece.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*(s)wordo-
- Ancient GreekΒαρδάριος
- EnglishVardar
From Ancient Greek Βαρδάριος (Bardários), possibly of Thracian origin, from an earlier *Vardários, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)wordo- *wori- (“black water”). More at Vardar.
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Vardar. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Vardar
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