Weltstadtn.
/ˈvɛltʃtat/ A city of international significance or cosmopolitan character; a cosmopolis.
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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 W. James Let. 20 Dec. in R. B. Perry Thought & Char. W. James (1935) II. 180 You go from one end of it to another in an ordinary afternoon walk, and yet you feel as if in a Weltstadt.
1914 G. Bell Let. 29 Mar. (1927) I. 349 Bagdad has grown a ‘Weltstadt’!
1984 N. Shepherd Wilfrid Israel ii. 17 Berlin..was now..demanding recognition, after the country's unification, as a Weltstadt like Paris and London.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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n.1892- dirty-faced
- dirty-filling
- dirty-handed
- dirty-looking
- dirty-minded
- dirty-mindedness
- dirty-shirted
- dirty-shoed
- dirty-souled
- dirty-trickery
- dirty-trickster
- dirtycoloured
- dirtyface
- dirtyfaced
- dirtyfilling
- dirtyhanded
- dirtying
- dirtyish
- dirtylooking
- dirtyminded
- dirtymindedness
- dirtyshirted
- dirtyshoed
- dirtysouled
- dirtytrickery