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cosmopolis

cosmopolis

1 8.7
A city where many people from different countries and cultures live together
  • noun
  • /kɒzˈmɒpəlɪs/
: cosmópolis
  • It can never be a kind of cosmopolis, a world state, or even a league of states or nations.

Examples

  • Alexandria proved not only a modernizing cosmopolis, but also a Trojan horse.

    Academic text (2010)
  • By 1829 it was called the Place des Consuls, the residence of the French, American, and Swedish consuls, a visible expression of their power and status in the new cosmopolis.

    Academic text (2010)
  • Sarah, we didn't even see a trailer for this; it was more of a promo that showed before the showing of Cosmopolis we saw.

    Blog text (4)
  • By 1849, it had become a cosmopolis of 100,000 and Egypt's second capital.

    Academic text (2010)
  • The Most Underrated Movie of 2012: David Cronenberg's "Cosmopolis" is by a long shot the most audaciously conceived film of the year.

    Blog text (13)
  • They are contrasts, and their combination in the text creates the same "Cosmopolis" Dario had in mind.

    Academic text (1998)
  • Manent makes a formidable contribution to political philosophy: he adds a new mode of political analysis, namely, the classification of political forms (i.e., tribe, city, empire, nation, cosmopolis).

    Academic text (2002)
  • The film stars Caleb Landry Jones of "Friday Night Lights" fame, and features Cronenberg family regular Sarah Gadon ("A Dangerous Method", "Cosmopolis") in a small but crucial role as starlet Hannah Geist.

    Blog text (14)
  • New York City is often described as a vibrant cosmopolis where diverse cultures coexist and influence each other.

  • In this modern world, the internet has created a global cosmopolis that connects people from various backgrounds.

How Cosmopolitan

cosmopolis
1 8.7
metropolis
32 5.2
city
∞ 1.0
town
∞ 1.0
village
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

cosmopolis singular
cosmopolises plural

Morphology

cosmopolis = cosmo + polis

The word is transparently built from classical combining forms meaning roughly 'world' and 'city', but the modern social sense is a somewhat extended use of that literal structure.

Etymology

Cosmopolis comes from Greek parts cosmo- meaning 'world' and -polis meaning 'city', so it means 'world-city'. Think of the word cosmos 'the universe' and the familiar metropolis 'a big city' to remember that a cosmopolis is a city where people from many countries and cultures live together.