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Poland

//ˈpəʊ.lənd// name

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  1. 1
    A country in Central Europe. Official name: Republic of Poland. Capital and largest city: Warsaw.

    "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."

  2. 2
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Cass Township, Clay County, Indiana.
  3. 3
    A number of places in the United States:; A town in Androscoggin County, Maine.
  4. 4
    A number of places in the United States:; A town in Chautauqua County, New York.
  5. 5
    A number of places in the United States:; A village in Herkimer County, New York.
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  1. 6
    A number of places in the United States:; A village and township in Mahoning County, Ohio.
  2. 7
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Eaton, Brown County, Wisconsin.
  3. 8
    A village on Kiritimati, Kiribati, named after the home country of a plantation manager.

    "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."

  4. 9
    A surname.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂-? Proto-Indo-European *pel-? 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”).

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