Warsaw
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- proper noun
- /ˈwɔrˌsɔ/
- Wladyslaw Szpilman continued to live in Warsaw until his death on 6th July, 2000.
- Warsaw Pact
- Warsaw ghetto
- Warsaw and Prague
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Watch on YouTubeExcept that the Red Army that stood at the gates of Warsaw was more fragile than it looked.
- Except that the Red Army that stood at the gates of Warsaw was more fragile than it looked.
- My mother and father were born in Warsaw.
- It's where the current capital of Poland, Warsaw is.
- I had a dream of taking a train from Vienna to Warsaw.
- I'm giving the keynote my first time in Warsaw.
- Last year, Russia lost city after city to the advancing Austro German colossus Warsaw, Lemberg Kovno.
- Uliana, even before the war, joined the what was known as the White Russian Society in Warsaw.
- And here I am today, invited by the Germans at the Jewish Museum of Warsaw in the presence of the Polish foreign minister.
- As you may know, Marie Corie was not born Marie Corie in Paris, but rather Maria Sladowska in Warsaw, Poland.
- That it matters a great deal that when he said I am here, the buildings behind him were Kiev and not Levieux and not Warsaw, right?
- They went in, they slotted Warsaw, they slotted Warsaw.
Examples
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By August I was in Warsaw when the first non communist government was being sworn in.
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I couldn't wait to be in Warsaw, which my mother had described as a paradise on earth.
Fiction book (1993) -
This is like in Warsaw not so long time ago.
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And you said you lived on a farm near Warsaw?
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There are no more than a hundred young Jews in Warsaw, he says.
Fiction book (1994) -
And here I am today, invited by the Germans at the Jewish Museum of Warsaw in the presence of the Polish foreign minister.
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When I ask them to describe life in post-war Warsaw, they shake their heads.
Fiction book (1994) -
There was little left of that laughing boy who once sprinted through peaceful Warsaw streets.
Academic text (2011) -
After a stay with friends in Warsaw, we intended to visit my family's ancestral home.
Fiction book (1994) -
I visited Warsaw, the capital and largest city of Poland, last summer.
Synonyms
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The capital and largest city of Poland on the Vistula River
Surface Forms
Etymology
Warsaw comes from the Polish name Warszawa, which means 'the place of Warsz'. Warsz was an old personal name, so the city was named for a person — like 'Johnson' means 'son of John' — and that explains why Warsaw is the city's name.