Wrocław

American  

[vrawts-lahf] / ˈvrɔts lɑf /

noun

1. a province in SW Poland.

2. a city in and the capital of this province, on the Oder River: formerly in Germany.

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Wrocław British  

/ ˈvrɔtswaf /

noun

1. German name: Breslau.  an industrial city in SW Poland, on the River Oder: passed to Austria (1527) and to Prussia (1741); returned to Poland in 1945. Pop: 647 000 (2005 est)

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Example Sentences

Mr Turski studied history at the University of Wrocław, during which time he took up journalism and worked in political communications.

From BBC

Television footage showed several hundred, mostly young people waiting in a long line at one polling station in the western city of Wrocław to vote.

From Reuters

Television footage showed several hundred people, mostly young, waiting in a long line at one polling station in the western city of Wrocław to vote.

From Reuters

A Polish blog in 2019 said the site was started by two graduates of the Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Lukasz Kowalczyk and Denis Tatina, who built it as a hobby project and later monetized it upon seeing the user interest — the greatest of which, they said, came from the United States.

From Seattle Times

Polish police said they raided discos in the cities of Wrocław and Rybnik that had opened in breach of coronavirus restrictions on Saturday, using stun grenades and teargas to clear the dancefloor.

From The Guardian