Monday 22nd August 2016
Cosmopolis /kɒzˈmɒpəlɪs/
Noun
1. an international city
Quote
The streets--with their pearly awnings and gay bustle of hats and parasols—were
all a-shimmer in the heat, and swarming with "foreigners," with the result that
Glasgow had assumed the air of a cosmopolis, resembling, perhaps, Seville, Paris
or even Naples, on a fête day.
Jane Harris, Gillespie and I 2011
Origin
Cosmopolis is modeled on the word metropolis. Its first element, cosmo-,
stems from the Greek kósmos meaning "world, universe," and its second element, -polis stems from the Greek pólis, "city-state."
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