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postać

Pronunciation: /ˈpɔ.stat͡ɕ/

“postać” is a Polish word. Its 20 meanings in English:

noun

  1. figure, form (shape of some being)
  2. character (person of a given personality)
  3. character (agent within a story)
  4. character, form (observable form of something)
  5. head harvester (person in charge of harvesting)
  6. harvest area
  7. aspect (grammatical quality of a verb which determines the relationship of the speaker to the internal temporal flow of the event which the verb describes)
  8. rhetorical device
  9. position, state
  10. chunk of mineral limited in some plane
  11. part (fragment of a whole)
  12. layer
  13. appearance, pretending
  14. The meaning of this term is uncertain.

verb

  1. used to emphasize that a person has never been or will never be in a particular place
  2. to stand for a while
  3. to linger, to remain for a while (to not be destroyed for some time)
  4. to not wither for some time
  5. to be unused for some time
  6. to sit for some time (to be left alone for some time until another desired state is reached)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish postać (noun).

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