Poland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəʊ.lənd/
ipa: /ˈpoɫ.ənd/
ipa: /ˈpoʊ.lənd/
Forms: form: Poleland
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-der.
Proto-Slavic *poľe
Proto-Slavic *-janъ
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Slavic *-inъ
Proto-Slavic *-janinъ
Proto-Slavic *poľaninъder.
German Polebor.
English Pole
Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Germanic *landą
Proto-West Germanic *land
Old English land
Middle English lond
English land
English Poland
1560s. From Pole + land, a phono-semantic matching of German Polen (“Poland”), from Old Polish Polanie (“Poles”, literally “field dwellers”), from Proto-Slavic *poľane, plural of *poľaninъ (“field dweller”), from *poľe (“field”) + *-ěninъ, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat, wide”).
Senses: examples: text: After leaving the Soviet Union, we made a brief visit to one of the captive nations — Poland.[...]A quarter of a million people turned out that Sunday. Despite the presence of Soviet troops, and the fact that they share a common border with the Soviet Union, on that Sunday the people of Poland demonstrated dramatically not only their friendship for the United States but also their detestation of their Communist rulers and Soviet neighbors.
ref: 1978, Richard Nixon, RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 213:
text: The next stop was Warsaw, to meet with President Lech Walesa and emphasize my commitment to bringing Poland into NATO. Walesa had become a hero, and free Poland's natural choice for president, by leading the Gdansk-shipyard workers' revolt against communism more than a decade earlier. He was deeply suspicious of Russia and wanted Poland in NATO as soon as possible. He also wanted more American investment in Poland, saying the country's future required more American generals, "starting with General Motors and General Electric."
ref: 2005, Bill Clinton, My Life, volume II, New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 185–186:
text: Hungary, Austria and Poland are still refusing to participate in the resettlement plan, due to end in September. Other Eastern European countries, such as the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Croatia and Slovakia, are only doing so on a limited basis, the commission said.
ref: 2017 March 2, Eliza Mackintosh, “No more excuses on resettling refugees, European Commission warns”, in CNN:
glosses: A country in Central Europe. Official name: Republic of Poland. Capital and largest city: Warsaw.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Cass Township, Clay County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Androscoggin County, Maine.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Chautauqua County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Herkimer County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village and township in Mahoning County, Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Eaton, Brown County, Wisconsin.
examples: text: The principal economic activity is copra production, the Government copra plantation covering some 5,170 ha. The population in 1989 was estimated at 2,000, the great majority of whom live in London, Banana and Poland villages in the west.
ref: 1993, Derek A. Scott, “A DIRECTORY OF WETLANDS IN OCEANIA”, in Wetlands International, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2018, page 188:
glosses: A village on Kiritimati, Kiribati, named after the home country of a plantation manager.
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Polandish
Polexit
Related terms: Polak
Polandball
Polander
Poland syndrome
Pole
Polish
Polono-