• Polander \Po"land*er\, n. A native or inhabitant of Poland; a Pole.
  

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998
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• Wikipedia lists the word "Polack" on a list of racial slurs
  

Polack or Polock  (U.S., Germany) a person of Polish descent.
Ironically, the word for "Pole" in the Polish language is "Polak". In
Germany, the first version is used exclusively.

• Pole [ pōl ] (plural Poles)  noun  Found in Encarta
  

1. somebody from Poland: somebody who comes from Poland

2. somebody with Polish ancestor: somebody who is of Polish
descent

[Late 16th century. Via German < Old Polish Polanie "field-
dwellers" < pole "field"]

• A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue. From the Twelfth Century to the End of the
  Seventeenth. Founded on the Collections of Sir William A. Craigie. Volume VI Po-Quh
  Edited by A.J. Aitken, M.A., D. Litt., and James A. C. Stevenson, M.A., Ph.D. Aberdeen
  University Press, Farmers Hall, Aberdeen AB9 2XT, Scotland. Copyright 1986 Scottish
  Dictionaries Joint Council.
  

Polander, n. (e.m.E. (1601). A Pole. – The body of Boratski, the Polander, ... was hung up in chains;
1682 LAUDER Observes 62.

• Middle English Dictionary. Sherman M. Kuhn, Editor. The University of
  Michigan Press. Ann Arbor. 1982.
  

Definitions:
o        Poland wax, a type of wax imported from Poland. p. 1100

• Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins. Second Edition. William and Mary Morris.
  Foreword by Isaac Asimov. Harper & Row, Publishers, New York. 1988.
  

Pole/Polander. These two terms are not precisely interchangeable. Polander is defined as a
native or inhabitant of Poland. However, Pole is not only a simpler form – and thus easier to use –
but it also has the broader meaning of any person of Polish descent, not simply one who was
born there or now lives there. Some of our major cities have large groups of Poles, many of them
several generations removed from the motherland.