"Moselle" meaning in English

See Moselle in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /məʊˈzɛl/
Etymology: From French Moselle, from Latin Mosella. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|Moselle}} French Moselle, {{der|en|la|Mosella}} Latin Mosella Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Moselle
  1. A river flowing from France into the Rhine at Koblenz (western Germany). Translations (river): Mosl (Bavarian), Mosel·la [feminine] (Catalan), Moezel [feminine] (Dutch), Moselle [feminine] (French), Mosel [feminine] (German), Mosella [feminine] (Italian), モーゼル川 (Mōzeru-gawa) (Japanese), Mosel [German-Low-German] (Low German), Musel [feminine] (Luxembourgish), Mosel (Norwegian Bokmål), Mosel (Norwegian Nynorsk), Mosèla [feminine] (Occitan), Mosela [masculine] (Portuguese), Mosela [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-Moselle-en-name-vXErI24v Disambiguation of 'river': 100 0
  2. One of the départements in Grand Est, France. Categories (place): Places in France, Places in Grand Est, Departments of France, Rivers in France, Rivers in Germany Translations (department): Moselle [feminine] (French), Mosèla [feminine] (Occitan)
    Sense id: en-Moselle-en-name-a6YhjJBU Disambiguation of Departments of France: 40 52 8 Disambiguation of Rivers in France: 34 52 14 Disambiguation of Rivers in Germany: 35 48 17 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 17 64 19 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 19 61 21 Disambiguation of 'department': 42 58
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: Meurthe-et-Moselle, Pagny-sur-Moselle

Noun

IPA: /məʊˈzɛl/ Forms: Moselles [plural]
Etymology: From French Moselle, from Latin Mosella. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|Moselle}} French Moselle, {{der|en|la|Mosella}} Latin Mosella Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} Moselle (countable and uncountable, plural Moselles)
  1. A light white wine, made from Riesling grapes originating in the valley of this river. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-Moselle-en-noun-45QLUJfr

Inflected forms

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