English Explanatory Dictionary

pospolite

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A former militia in the Kingdom of Poland and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, consisting of the gentry, which, was summoned to defend the country in the event of an invasion

Word forms

pospolite pospolites

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish pospolite ruszenie (“a general summons to arms, an arriere-ban”, literally “general stirring”).

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