Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word POLISH

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Definitions of POLISH

1. Of, from or native to Poland, or relating to the Polish language.
2. The language spoken in Poland.
3. A breed of chickens with a large crest of feathers.
4. A substance used to polish.
5. Cleanliness; smoothness, shininess.
6. Refinement; cleanliness in performance or presentation.
7. (transitive) To shine; to make a surface very smooth or shiny by rubbing, cleaning, or grinding.
8. (transitive) To refine; remove imperfections from.
9. (transitive) To apply shoe polish to shoes.
10. (intransitive) To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface.
11. (transitive) To refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite.

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Examples of Using POLISH in a Sentence

• Born in Warsaw, Vistula Country, which was then part of the Russian Empire, Korzybski belonged to an aristocratic Polish family whose members had worked as mathematicians, scientists, and engineers for generations.
• The saga has been popularized through television, stage, comic books, video games and translated into 37 languages making him the second most-translated Polish science fiction and fantasy writer after Stanisław Lem.
• The homage was described by the Polish chronicler Jan Kochanowski in his work Proporzec ("Standard").
• Banach spaces are named after the Polish mathematician Stefan Banach, who introduced this concept and studied it systematically in 1920–1922 along with Hans Hahn and Eduard Helly.
• The Polish forces, commanded by Piotr Dunin and consisting of some 2,000 mercenaries and Poles, decisively defeated the 2,700-man army of the Teutonic Knights, commanded by Fritz Raweneck and Commander of the Order Kaspar Nostitz (Nostyc).
• The Battle of Berestechko (Ukrainian: Битва під Берестечком, Polish: Bitwa pod Beresteczkiem; 28 June – 10 July 1651) was fought between the Cossack Hetmanate and Crimean Khanate against the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth as a part of the Khmelnytsky Uprising.
• Bohdan Zynoviy Mykhailovych Khmelnytsky (Ruthenian: Ѕѣнові Богданъ Хмелнiцкiи; modern , Polish: ; 15956 August 1657) was a Ruthenian nobleman and military commander of Zaporozhian Cossacks as Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host, which was then under the suzerainty of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
• In 1938, after the Munich Agreement, the Sudetenland became part of Nazi Germany, while the country lost further territories to Hungary and Poland (the territories of southern Slovakia with a predominantly Hungarian population to Hungary and Zaolzie with a predominantly Polish population to Poland).
• Czech is closely related to Slovak, to the point of high mutual intelligibility, as well as to Polish to a lesser degree.
• Miłosz survived the German occupation of Warsaw during World War II and became a cultural attaché for the Polish government during the postwar period.
• The observance of Christmas developed gradually over the centuries, beginning in ancient times; combining old Polish pagan customs with the religious ones introduced after the Christianization of Poland by the Catholic Church.
• The history of cinema in Poland is almost as long as the history of cinematography, and it has universally recognized achievements, even though Polish films tend to be less commercially available than films from several other European nations.
• Frédéric François Chopin (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin; 1 March 181017 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for solo piano.
• Born into an impoverished Polish noble family in Russian-ruled Congress Poland, in the late 1860s he began publishing journalistic and literary pieces.
• The roots of Polish history can be traced to ancient times, when the territory of present-day Poland was inhabited by diverse ethnic groups, including Celts, Scythians, Sarmatians, Slavs, Balts and Germanic peoples.
• This is a timeline of Polish history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Poland and its predecessor states.
• The German, Polish, Portuguese, and Spanish name for the letter J (Jot / jota) is derived from iota.
• Inka, nom de guerre of Danuta Siedzikówna (1928–1946), Polish national heroine, medical orderly in the Home Army.
• The IPN was established by the Polish parliament by the Act on the Institute of National Remembrance of 18 December 1998 through reforming and expanding the earlier Main Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish Nation of 1991, which itself had replaced the General Commission for Research on Fascist Crimes, a body established in 1945 focused on investigating Nazi crimes established in 1945.
• According to Polish medieval chronicles, she was sent to Hungary as a bride of the son of King Béla II.
• Jadwiga was a member of the Capetian House of Anjou, but she had more close forebears among the Polish Piasts than among the Angevins.
• Janusz Andrzej Zajdel (15 August 1938 – 19 July 1985) was a Polish science fiction author, second in popularity in Poland to Stanisław Lem.
• Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 1596, and has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life.
• Founded in 1938 by a Polish Jew, Jacques Spreiregen, Kangol produced hats for workers, golfers, and especially soldiers.
• They speak the Kashubian language, which is classified as a separate language closely related to Polish.

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