Meanings
- uncommonSynonym of Warsaw: the capital city of Poland; the capital city of Masovian Voivodeship.
Marie Curie was never a Polish citizen, though her family were Polish nationalists. At the time of her departure from Warszawa, the Polish state simply did not exist.
2019, Irina Rodica Rabeja, “Scientific Work Years”, in Marie Sklodowska Curie: Her Contribution to Science, Sydney, N.S.W.: Irina Rabeja, →ISBN, page 642 more examples
Joseph had never been to Warszawa but often, as he stood on the high, chalky banks of the great river, Wisla, and watched it winding its course far away, he dreamed of a journey he would like to make in an airplane.
1942 June, Antoni Gronowicz, translated by Jessie McEwen, “Village”, in Bolek, Edinburgh; New York, N.Y.; Toronto, Ont.: Thomas Nelson and Sons, published August 1944 (2nd printing), →OCLC, page 8After comparing with this species, we thought ours as a new species due to the presence of apical aedeagal processes. Later, Dworakowska of Warszawa, Poland, suggested that ours is the same as that of Ahmed, and this character might have been missed by him.
1973, A. S. Sohi, V. C. Kapoor, “A Note on the Cicadellid, Erythroneura cassiae Ahmed”, in J. M[ichael] Chalmers-Hunt, editor, The Entomologist’s Record and Journal of Variation, volume 85, Arbroath, Angus: T. Buncle & Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 217–218Synonyms: Warsaw
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounSynonym of Warsaw: the capital city of Poland; the capital city of Masovian Voivodeship.
Origin
- Old PolishWarcisław
- Old PolishWarsz
- Old Polish*warszewy
- Proto-Indo-European*weyḱ-
- Proto-Balto-Slavic*wiśis
- Proto-Slavic*vь̀sь
- Old Polishwieś
- Old Polish*warszewa wieśellip.
- Old PolishWarszewa
- PolishWarszawa
- EnglishWarszawa
Unadapted borrowing from Polish Warszawa. Doublet of Warsaw.
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Warszawa. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Warszawa
“Warszawa.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Warszawa. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Warszawa,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Warszawa.
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