Wilno

[ veel-naw ]

noun

1. Polish name of Vilnius.

Wilno

/ ˈviːlnɔ /

noun

1. the Polish name for Vilnius

Example Sentences

After the war, the family settled in Wilno—now Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital, but at the time a majority-Polish city.

From The New Yorker

Postwar Poland, newly independent after more than a century of tsarist rule, experienced a sudden surge of chauvinist pride and annexed much of Lithuania, including Wilno.

From The New Yorker

In 1931, Wilno University, where he was a student, was convulsed by anti-Jewish riots.

From The New Yorker

In the initial chaos, he fled Warsaw and took a circuitous route back to Wilno, which was momentarily free, because Lithuania was still independent.

From The New Yorker

Before the war Vilnius - Wilno to give it its Polish name, Vilna in the days of Russian imperial rule - was a part of northeast Poland.

From Reuters