polis

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an ancient Greek city-state, regarded as a political community together with its territory

   Citizens of the polis debated public policy in the assembly.

A learned borrowing from Greek polis ("city, fortified town, city-state"). The same Greek base appears in words such as metropolis and acropolis and is related to the language of citizenship and political community.

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