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powód

Pronunciation: /ˈpɔ.vut/

“powód” is a Polish word. Its 18 meanings in English:

noun

  1. cause, reason
  2. lead (strap or rope connected to a bridle on which a horse is led)
  3. leading (act of leading)
  4. argument, reasoning
  5. strips that are nailed in a shaft's compartments on which boxes slide when they are pulled out so that they do not interfere with the shaft lining
  6. consultation
  7. model (example that people follow)
  8. origin, source; beginning
  9. course of events
  10. premise (basis of inference)
  11. topic (subject of discussion)
  12. proceedings; case
  13. success
  14. civil horses (horses prepared in cities so that a representative of the authorities making a longer journey could replace tired horses with rested ones)
  15. civic duty of providing a ruler or his representatives with means of transport
  16. plaintiff
  17. leader (one who leads)
  18. initiator, causer

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish powód. By surface analysis, deverbal from powieść.

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