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POLSKA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A republic in central Europe; the invasion of Poland by Germany in 1939 started World War II
Synonyms:
Poland; Polska; Republic of Poland
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
European country; European nation (any one of the countries occupying the European continent)
Meronyms (parts of "Polska"):
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)
Auschwitz (a Nazi concentration camp for Jews in southwestern Poland during World War II)
Meronyms (members of "Polska"):
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 ("Polska" 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)
