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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
Polish name: Warszawa. 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)
Warsaw
Capital of Poland and largest city in the country, located in central Poland; the political, cultural, industrial, and transportation center of Poland.
Word History and Origins
Origin of Warsaw1
Example Sentences
Here’s an example from elsewhere: In 2020, after the Polish government stripped its judges of procedural power and independence, they donned their legal regalia and took to the streets of Warsaw, along with hundreds of jurists from 22 European countries and about 30,000 citizens in a mass protest that came to be called the 1,000 Robes March.
German prosecutors investigating the attack issued their first arrest warrant in August 2024, naming the man as Volodymyr Z. Reports at the time said he was a diving instructor living in Pruszkow, south-east of Warsaw, but authorities had been unable to find him.
A spokesman for the Warsaw district prosecutor's office, Piotr Antoni Skiba, told the BBC on Tuesday that proceedings had begun against a suspect from Pruszkow named as Volodymr Z.
The man, identified only as Volodymyr Z, was detained under a European arrest warrant in the early hours of Tuesday in a town near Warsaw, his lawyer told Poland's Pap state news agency.
While living under a false identity, she was imprisoned as a Polish Catholic after the Warsaw Uprising of 1944.
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