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Poland

/ˈpəʊ.lənd//ˈpoɫ.ənd/

Poland proper noun: a country in Central Europe. Official name: Republic of Poland. Capital and largest city: Warsaw.

poland: a country in Central Europe. Official name: Republic of Poland. Capital and largest city: Warsaw
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Proper noun

Poland

  1. A country in Central Europe. Official name: Republic of Poland. Capital and largest city: Warsaw.
    • After leaving the Soviet Union, we made a brief visit to one of the captive nations — Poland.[...]A quarter of a million people turned out that Sunday. Despite the presence of Soviet troops, and the fact that they share a common border with the Soviet Union, on that Sunday the people of Poland...1978, Richard Nixon, RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 213
    • The next stop was Warsaw, to meet with President Lech Walesa and emphasize my commitment to bringing Poland into NATO. Walesa had become a hero, and free Poland's natural choice for president, by leading the Gdansk-shipyard workers' revolt against communism more than a decade earlier. He was deeply...2005, Bill Clinton, My Life, volume II, New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 185–186
  2. An unincorporated community in Cass Township, Clay County, Indiana.
  3. A town in Androscoggin County, Maine.
  4. A town in Chautauqua County, New York.
  5. A village in Herkimer County, New York.
  6. A village and township in Mahoning County, Ohio.
  7. An unincorporated community in Eaton, Brown County, Wisconsin.
  8. A village on Kiritimati, Kiribati, named after the home country of a plantation manager.
    • The principal economic activity is copra production, the Government copra plantation covering some 5,170 ha. The population in 1989 was estimated at 2,000, the great majority of whom live in London, Banana and Poland villages in the west.1993, Derek A. Scott, “A DIRECTORY OF WETLANDS IN OCEANIA”, in Wetlands International, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2018, page 188
  9. A surname.

Poland meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

Poland in Hindi

European country
पोलैंड polaiṇḍ, लहिस्तान lahistān

Poland in Tamil

European country
போலந்து pōlantu

Poland in Marathi

European country
पोलंड polaṇḍa

Poland in Urdu

European country
پولَینْڈ polainḍ, لَہِسْتان lahistān
More languagesFewer languages
Poland in Bengali
পোল্যান্ড pōlênḍ, লেহিস্তান lehistan
Poland in Telugu
పోలాండ్ pōlāṇḍ
Poland in Malayalam
പോളണ്ട് pōḷaṇṭŭ
Poland in Kannada
ಪೋಲೆಂಡ್ pōleṇḍ
Poland in Punjabi
ਪੋਲੈਂਡ polaiṇḍ, پولَینْڈ polainḍ
Poland in Gujarati
પોલેંડ poleṇḍ
Poland in Odia
ପୋଲାଣ୍ଡ୍ polāṇḍ
Poland in Sanskrit
पोलैंड polaiṃḍa
Poland in Sinhala
පෝලන්තය pōlantaya
Poland in Nepali
पोल्याण्ड polyāṇḍa
Poland in Pashto
پولنډ polanḍ
Poland in Tagalog
Polonya
Poland in Arabic
بُولَنْدَا būlandā, بُولُونِيَا būlūniyā
Poland in Malay
Poland
Poland in Indonesian
Polandia
Poland in Thai
โปแลนด์ bpoo-lɛɛn
Poland in Vietnamese
Ba Lan
Poland in Myanmar
ပိုလန် puilan
Dhivehi
ޕޮލެންޑު polen̊ḍu

Examples of Poland in a sentence

  • After leaving the Soviet Union, we made a brief visit to one of the captive nations — Poland.[...]A quarter of a million people turned out that Sunday.1978, Richard Nixon, RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 213:
  • The next stop was Warsaw, to meet with President Lech Walesa and emphasize my commitment to bringing Poland into NATO.2005, Bill Clinton, My Life, volume II, New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 185–186:
  • Hungary, Austria and Poland are still refusing to participate in the resettlement plan, due to end in September.2017 March 2, Eliza Mackintosh, “No more excuses on resettling refugees, European Commission warns”, in CNN, archived from the original on...

Forms of Poland

alternative form (obsolete)Poleland

Origin of Poland

1560s. From Pole + land, a phono-semantic matching of German Polen (“Poland”), from Old Polish Polanie (“Poles”, literally “field dwellers”), from Proto-Slavic *poľane, plural of *poľaninъ (“field dweller”), from *poľe (“field”) + *-ěninъ, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat, wide”).

Words formed from Poland

Phrases with Poland

3 more phrasesFewer phrases

Questions about Poland

What does Poland mean?
Poland means a country in Central Europe. Official name: Republic of Poland. Capital and largest city: Warsaw.
What is Poland in Hindi?
Poland in Hindi is पोलैंड (polaiṇḍ), लहिस्तान (lahistān). See Poland meaning in Hindi.
How do you use Poland in a sentence?
After leaving the Soviet Union, we made a brief visit to one of the captive nations — Poland.[...]A quarter of a million people turned out that Sunday.
What part of speech is Poland?
Poland is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Poland?
Poland is pronounced /ˈpəʊ.lənd/ (UK).

Words near Poland in the dictionary

  1. Polaks
  2. Polan
  3. Polana
  4. Polanco
  5. Polancos
  6. Poland
  7. Poland China
  8. Poland Chinas
  9. Poland Is Not Yet Lost
  10. Poland Spring
  11. Poland syndrome

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Poland (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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