Polish
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2.0
- adjective
- /ˈpɒlɪʃ/
:
polaco
- The restaurant serves traditional Polish dishes like pierogi and bigos.
- Polish culture
- Polish immigrants
- Polish immigration
She was Polish, very Polish, Polish Catholic.
- She was Polish, very Polish, Polish Catholic.
- That same day that same Soviet promised the Polish people complete independence.
- And at the end of the lectures, the Polish fascists would beat them up.
- I'm from London, but my background is British, Polish and Caribbean.
- And, and so, and it was run back then by a group of Polish guys.
- You can cross, can cross Polish border one time only.
- So on the one side, Polish connection, very beautiful, right?
Examples
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One particularly strong characteristic of Polish culture, though, is the fact of Polish nationalism.
Academic text (1999) -
First, the export increase indicates that the Polish economy can be successfully integrated with Western Europe.
Academic text (1990) -
So here are the pictures that the the Polish team created.
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You can cross, can cross Polish border one time only.
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So on the one side, Polish connection, very beautiful, right?
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And, and so, and it was run back then by a group of Polish guys.
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In fact, this was a project that was funded by some Polish historical institute.
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We are about to have some Polish vodka.
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With his blond hair and blue eyes, Ben blended in easily with the Polish population.
Academic text (2011) -
The occasion was the forty-fourth international convention of the Polish Singers Alliance of America.
Academic text (1999)
Idioms
- Offensive
You cannot make something very bad look good no matter how much you try
Compounds
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1.8
A colored or clear paint you put on fingernails and toenails to give them color and shine
- Specialized
A very shiny finish you make on wood by rubbing on thin coats of shellac mixed with alcohol
- Specialized
A way to write math with numbers before the sign so no parentheses
- Slur
A confused, badly organized practice for leaving a building in an emergency
- Specialized
A way of writing math expressions without parentheses where a math sign like + or − comes before the numbers
The group in Poland that makes laws and has two houses, the Sejm and the Senate
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word Polish comes from the country name Poland, which itself comes from an old Slavic word meaning 'field' and the people who lived there. You can also see the same root in Pole (a person from Poland). So Polish means 'from Poland' or 'about Poland's people and culture'.