cosmopolis
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- noun
- /kɒzˈmɒpəlɪs/
- It can never be a kind of cosmopolis, a world state, or even a league of states or nations.
Examples
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Alexandria proved not only a modernizing cosmopolis, but also a Trojan horse.
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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.
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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.
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By 1849, it had become a cosmopolis of 100,000 and Egypt's second capital.
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The Most Underrated Movie of 2012: David Cronenberg's "Cosmopolis" is by a long shot the most audaciously conceived film of the year.
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They are contrasts, and their combination in the text creates the same "Cosmopolis" Dario had in mind.
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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).
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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.
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New York City is often described as a vibrant cosmopolis where diverse cultures coexist and influence each other.
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In this modern world, the internet has created a global cosmopolis that connects people from various backgrounds.
How Cosmopolitan
Surface Forms
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.