POLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Poland mean? 

• POLAND (noun)
  The noun POLAND has 1 sense:

1. a republic in central Europe; the invasion of Poland by Germany in 1939 started World War II

  Familiarity information: POLAND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A republic in central Europe; the invasion of Poland by Germany in 1939 started World War II

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Poland; Polska; Republic of Poland

Instance hypernyms:

European country; European nation (any one of the countries occupying the European continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Poland"):

Auschwitz (a Nazi concentration camp for Jews in southwestern Poland during World War II)

Vistula; Vistula River; Oder; Oder River (a European river; flows into the Baltic Sea)

Carpathian Mountains; Carpathians (a mountain range in central Europe that extends from Slovakia and southern Poland southeastward through western Ukraine to northeastern Romania; a popular resort area)

Zabrze (an industrial city in southern Poland)

Breslau; Wroclaw (a city in southwestern Poland on the Oder)

Lublin (an industrial city of eastern Poland)

Lodz (a large city of central Poland)

Katowice (an industrial city of southern Poland)

Danzig; Gdansk (a port city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea; a member of the Hanseatic League in the 14th century)

Czestochowa (a city of southern Poland whose church contains the statue of the black Madonna which attracts many pilgrims)

Cracow; Krakau; Krakow (an industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula)

Bromberg; Bydgoszcz (an industrial city and river port in northern Poland)

capital of Poland; Warsaw; Warszawa (the capital and largest city of Poland; located in central Poland)

Preussen; Prussia (a former kingdom in north-central Europe including present-day northern Germany and northern Poland)

Meronyms (members of "Poland"):

Pole (a native or inhabitant of Poland)

Domain member region:

battle of Tannenberg; Tannenberg (a battle in World War I (1914); decisive German victory over the Russians)

Holonyms ("Poland" is a part of...):

Europe (the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use 'Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles)

 Context examples 

The ancestors of Ashkenazi Jews lived in Central and Eastern Europe (e.g., Germany, Poland, Russia).

(Ashkenazi Jews, NCI Dictionary)

A country in central Europe, southeast of Germany and southwest of Poland.

(Czech Republic, NCI Thesaurus)

A similar process occurred the same year in Bulgaria, PGR dropping from -0.51% to -3.17%, and one year earlier in Poland, where PGR dropped from -0.03% in 2000 to -1.03% in 2001.

(Is the Global Crisis Triggering Basic Instincts?, BOGDAN FLORIN PAUL)

One of two major ancestral groups of Jewish individuals, comprised of those whose ancestors lived in Eastern Europe (Germany, Poland, Russia).

(Ashkenazi Jew, NCI Dictionary)

Ashkenazi Jews, also called Ashkenazim, are Jews who are descendants of Jews from Germany, Poland, Austria and Eastern Europe.

(Ashkenazi Jew, NCI Thesaurus)

We have to follow the example of Belgium, Luxembourg, Poland, Greece.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

Denotes a person having origins in any of the countries of Eastern Europe such as Czechoslovakia, Poland, Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia, Former Soviet Union, or Finland.

(Eastern European, NCI Thesaurus)

A country in central Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, between the Netherlands and Poland, south of Denmark.

(Germany, NCI Thesaurus)

Two Austrian researchers, Dr. Philipp Schwabl from the Medical University of Vienna, and Dr. Bettina Liebmann, from the Environment Agency Austria, studied participants from countries including Finland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, the UK and Austria.

(Researchers Discover Microplastics in 100 Percent of People Studied, VOA)

Countries like Romania, Poland and Bulgaria experienced massive workforce migration to Western European countries and they are showing negative population growth rates over most of the last decade.

(Is the Global Crisis Triggering Basic Instincts?, BOGDAN FLORIN PAUL)