cosmopolis.

A city with inhabitants drawn from many parts of the world.

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Words that belong together

• a trading cosmopolis
• a modern cosmopolis

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The trading cosmopolis carried several languages into the same market street.

She described the cosmopolis without pretending its communities shared equal power.

Usage notes

Primary category: setting. Forms: Singular cosmopolis; plural cosmopolises. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.