Jan Stanisławski (1893–1973) was a Polish lexicographer. Before World War II, as a lecturer in English at the

Jagiellonian University The Jagiellonian University (Polish: ''Uniwersytet Jagielloński'', UJ) is a public research university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1364 by King Casimir III the Great, it is the oldest university in Poland and the 13th oldest university in ...

in Kraków, Poland, Stanisławski compiled an English-Polish, Polish-English

dictionary A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by radical and stroke for ideographic languages), which may include information on definitions, usage, etymologies ...

. This one-volume dictionary was reprinted during World War II in Great Britain (first reprint, March 1940). Stanisławski subsequently augmented this modest dictionary into what became ''The Great English-Polish, Polish-English Dictionary'' (''Wielki słownik angielsko-polski, polsko-angielski'') published (variously, in 2 or 4 volumes) in Poland.

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