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cosmopolis|kɒzˈmɒpəlɪs|
[f. Gr. κόσµος + πόλις, after cosmopolite n. and a.: see cosmo- and -polis.]
The (capital) city of the world; a cosmopolitan city or community.
1892Daily News 20 Dec. 5/5 ‘Paris,’ says the ‘Patrie’, ‘has become the great cosmopolis.’ 1918A. Gray tr. Grelling's The Crime II. vi. 391 They would not at any price have their Fatherland a Cosmopolis. 1922Contemp. Rev. Sept. 365 The well of English untainted by the infiltrations of cosmopolis [sc. London]. 1964C. Vereker Devel. Polit. Theory (ed. 2) i. 35 The cosmopolis or world city with its life of virtue was the old polis, purified, idealized and writ large. |