oddział

== Polish == === Etymology === Deverbal from oddzielić. First attested in 1572. Compare Kashubian òddzél, Russian отде́л (otdél), and Silesian ôddzioł. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɔdd͡ʑaw Syllabification: od‧dział === Noun === oddział m inan (diminutive oddzialik, related adjective oddziałowy) (military) unit, squad (group of soldiers) Synonyms: formacja, jednostka, poczet department, branch (particular part of an enterprise or institution specialized in something) Synonyms: dział, wydział department, branch (those working in such a part) branch (part of a large enterprise or institution that is an independent facility) Synonyms: agenda, ekspozytura, filia department, branch (those working in such a part) ward (part of a hospital where patients reside) ward (building holding such a part) ward (those working in such a part) (somewhat archaic) grade (one of the groups into which children or adolescents are divided at school or kindergarten) Synonym: klasa (obsolete, originally) team (any organized group of people) ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Trivia === According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), oddział is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 12 times in scientific texts, 49 times in news, 8 times in essays, 23 times in fiction, and 6 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 98 times, making it the 643rd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words. === References === === Further reading === oddział in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN oddział in Polish dictionaries at PWN Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “oddział”, in Słownik języka polskiego Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “oddział”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861 J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “oddział”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 586