Meaning

3 senses

  1. (historical)A Greek city-state.

    Polis

  2. (Geordie, Ireland, Scotland, uncountable)The police.

  3. (Geordie, Ireland, Scotland, countable)A police officer.

Examples

3 sentences

  1. Puran Polis are made using jaggery.

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  2. Nilópolis is the smallest municipality in Rio de Janeiro State.

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  3. Stefan Zweig spent the last year of his life in the Brazilian city of Petrópolis.

    deSein letztes Lebensjahr verbrachte Stefan Zweig in der brasilianischen Stadt Petrópolis.

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Translations

6 languages
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By meaning 1
a city or city-state:

Origin

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πόλις (pólis, “fortified town; city state”). Doublet

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πόλις (pólis, “fortified town; city state”). Doublet of Puri and puri

Borrowed from Scots polis. Doublet of police, policy, and polity.

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Forms

plural: poleis / polises
Singularpolis
Pluralpoleis / polises

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
policewomanA2policyB1polioB2PolishB2politeA2
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