The most extensive Polish language dictionary, now available online on favourable conditions, and inside:

• About 100 000 entries with the information about the meaning, origin, inflection or conjugation, pronunciation and rules of proper usage.
• Proverbs and popular phrases with the explanation of their frequently mataphorical meanings and specialistic terms. Moreover – in our Internet service you do not have to search for them in the entries – all proverbs, terms and popular phrases are available straight from the dictionary menu.
• Over 100 thousand words of similar meaning are added to the basis of
  the dictionary, enabling to find a word in the net of semantical connections, which it forms with other words of Polish language. With their help those who care about language form of their statements will find the most exact words, thus avoiding monotony and repetitions.
• Index a tergo – the list of dictionary entries in inverted alphabetic order, where words of similar ending stand near each other. It helps to find a good rhyme or a family of words with common suffix.

All these characteristics enriched by simple and effective searching facilities make the Universal dictionary of Polish language in the internet service WN PWN several dictionaries in one!

The entries available in the Internet come from the Universal dictionary of Polish language, edited by Stanisław Dubisz and Elżbieta Sobol. It contains about 100 thousand entries (over 145 thousand lexical items, ex. definitive two-word terms, idiomatic constructions, proverbs). It contains words mainly from the second half of XX century and beginning of XXI, it omits most old and archaic words.

In the dictionary one can also find meaning relations for chosen entries form the Universal dictionary of Polish language, edited by the Editorial Staff of Polish Language Dictionaries.