REPUBLIC OF POLAND
Dictionary entry overview: What does Republic of Poland mean?
• REPUBLIC OF POLAND (noun)
The noun REPUBLIC OF POLAND has 1 sense:
1. a republic in central Europe; the invasion of Poland by Germany in 1939 started World War II
Familiarity information: REPUBLIC OF POLAND used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• REPUBLIC OF POLAND (noun)
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 (countries occupying the European continent)
Meronyms (parts of "Republic of Poland"):
Katowice (an industrial city of southern Poland)
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)
Vistula; Vistula River (a European river; flows into the Baltic Sea)
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)
Oder; Oder River (a European river; flows into the Baltic Sea)
Meronyms (members of "Republic 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 ("Republic of 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)
