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polis
1[ poh-lis ]
noun
plural poleis
- an ancient Greek city-state.
-polis
2- a combining form, meaning “city,” appearing in loanwords from Greek ( metropolis ), and used in the formation of placenames ( Annapolis ).
polis
1/ ˈɒɪ /
noun
- an ancient Greek city-state
polis
2/ ˈDZɪ /
noun
- the police or a police officer
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of polis1
1890–95; < Greek ó, plural (Ionic) ó
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of polis1
from Greek: city
Origin of polis2
C19: a variant pronunciation of police
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They were woven into the fabric of a democratic polis.
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Shadow puppets fill in the ancient Greek backstory involving a fellow named Thaddeus, who markets water in disposable vases that the polis can’t get enough of.
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More than that, a kind of arts polis, a democratic gathering place for arts and ideas.
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They also started to create what Václav Benda called a “parallel polis” – a world in which one tried to act as if one was already free.
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Sometimes the polis plunge in and arrest the job-hunters they can catch, to send them home.
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