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Etymology edit

Formed with -istics. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “from German Polonistik?”)

Noun edit

Polonistics (uncountable)

  1. (humanities, rare) Polish studies.
    • 2015, Miron Bialoszewski, A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising:
      Our Polonistics department was located on the corner of Świętokrzyska Street and Jasna, on the third floor; we sat on school benches; it was referred to as Tynelski's school of commercial studies.