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Polis
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Example Sentences
- What's genuinely radical about good art is that it detonates a kind of ambiguity-bomb at the heart of the polis.
- What's good for the pocketbook is good for the polis.
- But the fact that every greek is a polis will not help convince them to fully pay their taxes.
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-polis
a combining form, meaning “city,” appearing in loanwords from Greek (metropolis), and used in the formation of placenames (Annapolis).
Origin:
combining form representing Greek pólis polis
combining form representing Greek pólis polis
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