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warsaw
1[ wawr-saw ]
noun
- Also called warsaw grouper. a large grouper, Epinephelus nigritus, found in the warmer waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
- the jewfish, Epinephelus itajara, found off both coasts of tropical America.
Warsaw
2[ wawr-saw ]
noun
- Polish Warszawa. a city in and the capital of Poland, in the E central part, on the Vistula River.
- a town in N Indiana.
Warsaw
/ ˈwɔːsɔː /
noun
- the capital of Poland, in the E central part on the River Vistula: became capital at the end of the 16th century; almost completely destroyed in World War II as the main centre of the Polish resistance movement; rebuilt within about six years; university (1818); situated at the junction of important trans-European routes. Pop: 2 204 000 (2005 est) Polish nameWarszawavarˈʃava
Warsaw
- Capital of Poland and largest city in the country, located in central Poland; the political, cultural, industrial, and transportation center of Poland.
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At the same time, the Warsaw Pact threat was disintegrating.
A plane crash at Smolensk in Russia four years ago wiped out the Warsaw leadership.
Suggest Warsaw, Riga, Vilnius and Tallinn keep an eye out for masked men with guns wearing camouflage and no military insignia.
“Warsaw was once the centre of my universe,” recalled Milchberg late in life.
The weapons added to the cache used by the Jewish fighters in the Warsaw Uprising of April and May 1943.
The French troops crossed the Vistula at Warsaw, and encountered "the fifth element, mud."
And the word 'Warsaw' fled across his mind… as though it fell through the heated air into his mind… from hers.
Though he lacked the highest moral courage, his physical bravery was proven on many a stricken field from Valladolid to Warsaw.
And the papers of Braulinski of the old University of Warsaw on the fear trauma which he termed a birthmark of civilization.
The populace of Warsaw put eight of their principal noblemen to death as traitors to their country.
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