Meaning

2 senses
  1. The largest theoretical human settlement, a planetwide conurbation.

  2. A city spanning an entire planet or large moon.

    Ökumenopolis

    экумено́полисekumenópolis

Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
planet-wide city:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
planet-wide city:

Origin

From ecumene (“inhabited world”) + -polis (“city”).

From ecumene (“inhabited world”) + -polis (“city”).

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Forms

plural: ecumenopolises / ecumenopoleis / ecumenopoli

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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