Cosmopolis
Definitions
- an internationally important city inhabited by many different peoples reflecting a great variety of cultures, attitudes, etc.
Citations
The 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.
Yet this was also the era that gave us the cosmopolis, the dazzling hub of industrial and imperial prosperity, a place designed to be not only a home to its citizens but also a host to the rest of the world.
Origin
Cosmopolis 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, "city-state."
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