NOUN
- a river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea
How To Use Elbe River In A Sentence
- Volunteers have reinforced dikes along the Elbe River and sandbagged their homes and businesses trying to avoid a deluge.
- Their retreat left a vacuum east of the Elbe River now filled by immigrating tribes that the Germans loosely classified as Wends.
- A city of east-central Germany on the Elbe River northwest of Dresden. Its porcelain industry dates to the early 18th century. Population, 38,710.