Košice

American

[kaw-shi-tse] / ˈkɔ ʃɪ tsɛ /

noun

a city in SE Slovakia.

Košice British

/ ˈkɔʃitsɛ /

noun

Hungarian name: Kassa. a city in E Slovakia: passed from Hungary to Czechoslovakia in 1920 and to Slovakia in 1993. Pop: 236 093 (2001)

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The youngest of three daughters, Edith Eva Elefánt was born into a Hungarian-speaking Jewish family on Sept. 29, 1927, in Košice, now part of Slovakia.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

Entrepreneurs in the Slovakian city of Košice want to launch a see-through coffee, the main purpose of which is to “not negatively affect the whiteness of your teeth”.

From The Guardian • Jun. 25, 2015

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