Toruń

American  

[taw-roon-y^uh] / ˈtɔˌrʊn yə /

noun

1. a city in northern Poland, on the Vistula.

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Toruń British  

/ ˈtɔrunj /

noun

1. German name: Thorn.  an industrial city in N Poland, on the River Vistula: developed around a castle that was founded by the Teutonic Knights in 1230; under Prussian rule (1793–1919). Pop: 214 000 (2005 est)

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Example Sentences

Marcin, initially as malignant as Hook and as blinkered as Torvald, eventually grows as repentant and noble as Oberon in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” which will co-star a certain native of Toruń as Titania.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026

EnergaCamerimage will take place Nov. 16 -23 in Toruń.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2024

Elżbieta Zawacka was born in 1909 in the city of Toruń, a part of Poland which had been under the control of Prussia, then later Germany, for nearly a century.

From BBC • Aug. 3, 2024

"The padlock shows people were afraid of this child after its death," Dariusz Poliński, an archaeologist at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, told Live Science.

From Scientific American • Aug. 15, 2023

The modus operandi was like that of the Parczewskis: spotters in Toruń trawled the streets and bars for people who looked vulnerable, making false promises of work.

From The Guardian • Aug. 8, 2017