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单词 cosmopolis
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cosmopolisn.

Brit. /kɒzˈmɒpəlɪs/, U.S. /kɑzˈmɑpələs/
Etymology: < Greek κόσμος + πόλις, after cosmopolite n. and adj.: see cosmo- comb. form and -polis comb. form.
The (capital) city of the world; a cosmopolitan city or community.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > [noun] > chief town or capital city > cosmopolitan
world city1848
cosmopolis1892
Weltstadt1892
1892 Daily News 20 Dec. 5/5 ‘Paris,’ says the ‘Patrie’, ‘has become the great cosmopolis.’
1918 A. Gray tr. R. Grelling Crime II. vi. 391 They would not at any price have their Fatherland a Cosmopolis.
1922 Contemp. Rev. Sept. 365 The well of English untainted by the infiltrations of cosmopolis [sc. London].
1964 C. Vereker Devel. Polit. Theory (ed. 2) i. 35 The cosmopolis or world city with its life of virtue was the old polis, purified, idealized and writ large.
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