Polonized
Polonized is the simple past and past participle of Polonize.
Meaning of Polonize
Verb
Polonize (third-person singular simple present Polonizes, present participle Polonizing, simple past and past participle Polonized)
- To make Polish as to custom, culture, language, or style; to adapt to the norms of the Republic of Poland.
Adjective
Polonized (comparative more Polonized, superlative most Polonized)
- Made Polish.
- The orthodox clergy everywhere preached a crusade against the Jesuits and Uniates, and everywhere the peasants rose against the Polish or Polonized pans.1886, Alfred Rambaud, The History of Russia from the Earliest Times to 1877
- Germans arriving in rural parts of Prussia and Poland became Polonized, and though they predominated in the towns, this was not invariably the case and by the sixteenth century, German was no longer understood in Cracow.2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin, published 2017, page 96
Forms of Polonized
| comparative | more Polonized |
|---|---|
| superlative | most Polonized |
Questions about Polonized
- What does Polonized mean?
- Polonized means made Polish.
- What is Polonized the simple past and past participle of?
- Polonized is the simple past and past participle of Polonize.
- What part of speech is Polonized?
- Polonized is an adjective.
Words near Polonized in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: Polonized (page history and authors); Polonize (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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