单词 | tetrapolis |
释义 | tetrapolisn. A district of four cities; a state or political division consisting of four towns. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town > [noun] > group of towns pentapolis1838 tetrapolis1846 1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece I. i. v. 141 The inhabitants of the insignificant tetrapolis of Doris Proper. 1884 Boscawen Lect. in Builder 6 Dec. It was a tribe called the Akkadians who..founded the tetrapolis of Nimrod. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1846 |
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