Meanings
adjectivePolonophone (not comparable)
- not comparablePolish-speaking.
nounPolonophone (plural Polonophones)
plural Polonophones
- A speaker of Polish.
Furthermore, with the rising popularity of PayPal in the second half of the 2000s, Polonophones living in the British Isles started using the Polish online auction website Allegro.pl (founded in 1999) to the same end.
2016, Tomasz Kamusella, “Migration or Immigration? Ireland's New and Unexpected Polish-Language Community”, in Tomasz Kamusella, Motoki Nomachi, Catherine Gibson, editors, The Palgrave Handbook of Slavic Languages, Identities and Borders (Palgrave Handbooks), Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 538
Origin
- Frenchpolonophone
- EnglishPolonophone
From French polonophone; equivalent to Polono- + -phone.
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Czech polonofonní
- polonofonníPolish-speaking
Finnish puolankielinen
- puolankielinenPolish-speaking
French polonophone, polonophone
- polonophonePolish-speaking
- polonophonespeaker of Polish
German polnischsprachig, Polnischsprecher
- polnischsprachigPolish-speaking
- Polnischsprecherspeaker of Polish
Lithuanian lenkakal̃bis, lenkakal̃bis
- lenkakal̃bisPolish-speaking
- lenkakal̃bisspeaker of Polish
- lenkakal̃bėspeaker of Polish
Polish polskojęzyczny
- polskojęzycznyPolish-speaking
Russian польскоязы́чный
- польскоязы́чный (polʹskojazýčnyj)Polish-speaking
Swedish polsktalande, polskspråkig
- polsktalandePolish-speaking
- polskspråkigPolish-speaking
- polsktalandespeaker of Polish
- polskspråkigspeaker of Polish
Ukrainian польськомо́вний
- польськомо́вний (polʹsʹkomóvnyj)Polish-speaking
Cite this entry
APA
Polonophone. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Polonophone
MLA
“Polonophone.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Polonophone. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Polonophone,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Polonophone.
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