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Definition of Poland
1. Noun. A republic in central Europe; the invasion of Poland by Germany in 1939 started World War II.
Geographical relationships: Battle Of Tannenberg, Tannenberg
Terms within: Auschwitz, Preussen, Prussia, Capital Of Poland, Warsaw, Warszawa, Bromberg, Bydgoszcz, Cracow, Krakau, Krakow, Czestochowa, Danzig, Gdansk, Katowice, Lodz, Lublin, Breslau, Wroclaw, Zabrze, Carpathian Mountains, Carpathians, Oder, Oder River, Vistula, Vistula River
Generic synonyms: European Country, European Nation
Group relationships: Europe
Member holonyms: Pole
Definition of Poland
1. Proper noun. A country in Central Europe. Official name: Republic of Poland. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Poland
Literary usage of Poland
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1916)
"Resurrection of Poland. Lit Digest 53:824 S 30 '16 Tragicomedy of Poland.
Lit Digest 63:356-7 AS 12 '16 What will happen Poland? TJ Brennan. ..."
2. Haydn's Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information Relating to All Ages by Joseph Haydn, Benjamin Vincent (1889)
"Many Russians murdered ; Poland ¡ml in a state of The Polish provisional government
Issues ltd first Biege 24 Jan. ,, Louis ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The Benedictine nuns had convents in Poland in the Middle Ages. ... Convents were
gladly built for them in Poland, where they were introduced by John ..."
4. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by Anna Lorraine Guthrie, Marion A. Knight, H.W. Wilson Company, Estella E. Painter (1920)
"R Polit et Litt 56:231-6, 270-5 Ар 20-Му 4 '18 Poland be centenaire de ...
R de Paris 2ô,pt2:792- 812 Ap 15 48 Change in the government of Poland. ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"During his reign Poland reached its greatest territorial expansion of about ...
From 1572 until the partition, in 1795, Poland was an electoral commonwealth ..."
6. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1909)
"A feeble protest of the Western Powers on behalf of Poland (February 23, 1863)
was contemptuously rejected by the Russian Chancellor, ..."
7. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"There arc at present in Poland four ecclesiastical provinces: at Gnesen, Lemberg,
... In the year 1000 Poland had five bishoprics; this number increased to ..."
8. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"Hosius returned to Poland with the design of suppressing the Evangelicals there
also; ... This was to Poland, offset the Augsburg Confession, and, ..."
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