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Aug. 05, 2016
cosmopolis\koz-MOP-uh-lis\noun
1. an internationally important city inhabited by many different
peoples reflecting a great variety of cultures, attitudes, etc.
QuotesThe 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 of cosmopolisCosmopolis 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,
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