Katowice
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- proper noun
- If there is a Western role model for Katowice, Pittsburgh is a good candidate.
- Katowice, Poland
- Katowice, a city
- Katowice, an industrial city
Examples
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Aleksander Meresiński, of Katowice, took the title of Polish spelling champ, beating off competition from around 500 other hopefuls.
Blog text (1) -
Born in 1933, Gorecki has lived most of his life in Katowice, a polluted industrial city in the south of Poland.
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She came from Katowice, an industrial city in the west of Poland.
Fiction book (2002) -
In Katowice, an area in southern Poland, trains operate at reduced speeds because acid rain has contributed to severe corrosion of the tracks.
Academic text (1990) -
In Katowice, Poland, an area of four million inhabitants, sulfur dioxide levels often exceed safety limits by two times; nitrogen oxide ranges as high as well.
Academic text (1990) -
The conference of nearly 200 nations is taking place in Katowice, Poland, and its main task is to turn the vision of tackling global warming into concrete action.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Katowice comes from a personal name Kato plus the Slavic ending -wice, which means 'place of' or 'people of'. So Katowice originally meant 'Kato's place', a name for a settlement — which helps you remember it is the name of a city.