polish-lithuanian
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.17 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, from or relating to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Example Sentences
- "The cathedral was built between 1625 and 1636 to commemorate the liberation of Moscow from the Polish-Lithuanian nobles who overran Russia in the era known as the Time of Troubles."
- "Tom Kaminski, managing editor of traffic and transit information at WCBS-AM (880), said that in the pantheon of mispronounced New York landmarks, Van Wyck was neck-and-neck with the Kosciuszko Bridge, which connects Queens and Brooklyn and was named in the 1940s for Tadeusz Kosciuszko, a Polish-Lithuanian hero of the Revolutionary War."
- "That theme was reprised this month, on the 400th anniversary of the uprising that expelled a Polish-Lithuanian occupation, ending what Russians call the “time of troubles.”"
- "Russian nationalists marched on Tuesday in Moscow to commemorate Unity Day, which celebrates a victory over Polish-Lithuanian forces in 1612."
- "He was marking Unity Day, a national holiday that commemorates an uprising that expelled Polish-Lithuanian occupiers from Moscow in 1612."