# Poland

Pronunciation: say "POH-luhnd" US /ˈpoɫ.ənd/, UK /ˈpəʊ.lənd/

## Proper noun

1. A country in Central Europe, officially the Republic of Poland, with its capital and largest city at Warsaw.
   - Simple: A large country in Central Europe. Its capital and biggest city is Warsaw.
   - _Poland joined the European Union in 2004._
   - _Tourists flock to Poland to see the medieval old town of Kraków._

## Other meanings

- (proper noun) A surname.
- (proper noun) A town in Androscoggin County, Maine.
- (proper noun) A village and township in Mahoning County, Ohio.
- (proper noun) A town in Chautauqua County, New York.
- (proper noun) A village in Herkimer County, New York.
- (proper noun) An unincorporated community in Cass Township, Clay County, Indiana.
- (proper noun) An unincorporated community in Eaton, Brown County, Wisconsin.
- (proper noun) A village on Kiritimati, Kiribati, named after the home country of a plantation manager.

## Origin

First recorded in the 1560s, from Pole + land, formed as a phono-semantic matching of German Polen ("Poland"). This traces back to Old Polish Polanie ("Poles," literally "field dwellers"), from Proto-Slavic *poľane, from *poľe ("field"), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- ("flat, wide").

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