Meanings
nounPolonistics (uncountable)
- rareuncountablehumanitiesPolish studies.
Our Polonistics department was located on the corner of Świętokrzyska Street and Jasna, on the third floor; we sat on school benches; it was referred to as Tynelski's school of commercial studies.
2015, Miron Bialoszewski, A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising
Synonyms & antonyms
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Origin
- GermanPolonistik
- EnglishPolonistics
Perhaps from German Polonistik. By surface analysis, Polonia + -ist + -ics or by surface analysis, Polonia + -istics.
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Rhymes with Polonistics
statisticsneurolinguisticsanglisticsArabisticsBalkanisticsBohemisticsBulgaristicscasuisticscreolisticsfolkloristicsGermanisticsHebraisticsHispanisticsHungaristicsIranisticsItalianisticsjournalisticsKoreanisticsMacedonisticsmedievalisticsMongolisticsparalinguisticsRomanisticsSemitistics
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APA
Polonistics. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Polonistics
MLA
“Polonistics.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Polonistics. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Polonistics,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Polonistics.
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