warsaw
/ˈwɔɹsɔ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.66 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A home rule city, the county seat of Gallatin County, Kentucky, United States.
Countable; Uncountable
name
A town and village therein, in Wyoming County, New York, United States, the village is the county seat.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Established by the Germans in October 1940, the Warsaw Ghetto was the largest Jewish ghetto in German-occupied Europe."
- "BLACK GROUPER Mycteroperca bonaci […] They rank as fair food fish. Fishermen give them a variety of names: Warsaw grouper, gray grouper, jewfish, rockfish."
- "In the Gulf of Mexico handlines are also an important gear for the offshore subtropical bank fishes, accounting for 12,847,000 pounds of various snappers, 6,928,000 pounds of groupers, and 538,000 pounds of jewfish, warsaw, and grunts."
- "Plate 165. THE JEW-FISH OR “WARSAW.” Promicrops guasa, Pooey. (P. 412)"
- "Although the red grouper is indeed a large fish compared to most, often weighing forty pounds, it is almost a pigmy compared with a related fish of this family, the jew-fish, guasa, or Warsaw (Promicrops itaira). This fish is yellowish or olivaceous, sprinkled with numerous brown spots."
- "In the Atlantic (south) we have an allied form, the gansa or warsaw (Promicrops itaira), that attains a weight of over six hundred pounds."
Etymology
Etymology tree Old Polish Warcisław Old Polish -sz Old Polish Warsz Proto-Indo-European *-usder. Proto-Indo-European *-osder. Proto-Slavic *-ovъ Old Polish -owy Old Polish *warszewy Proto-Indo-European *weyḱ-der. Proto-Balto-Slavic *wiśis Proto-Slavic *vь̀sь Old Polish wieś Old Polish *warszewa wieśellip. Old Polish Warszewa Polish Warszawabor. English Warsaw Ultimately from Old Polish Warszewa. Doublet of Warszawa.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈwɔɹsɔ/
- British English: /ˈwɔːsɔː/