polis in English

noun
1
a city state in ancient Greece, especially as considered in its ideal form for philosophical purposes.
There were several hundred poleis in ancient Greece, many very small.

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "polis" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "polis", or refer to the context using the word "polis" in the English Dictionary.

1. Governor Jared Polis tweeted that he’s ‘Closely …

2. It lay in Grecian Polis and the Roman Law.

3. Jared Polis "Autopens" Controversial Day for March 20, 2021

4. The Republic, like the Greek polis, was a kind of tutelary association.

5. Afterward, Artyom meets Bourbon, a smuggler who offers to help him reach Polis.

6. Il potere nelle polis era detenuto dalla grandi famiglie Aristocratiche, i ghene

7. Panorama Hotel de Anapolis is set in Anápolis and features a garden

8. "Polis" is a Greek word that means a place with a sense of community.

9. What matters is they get the job done and protect our country, Polis said.

10. Acropoleis) comes from the Greek words ἄκρον (akron, "edge, extremity") and πόλις (polis, "city")

11. Polis explains that the strategy did not work as predicted because of what's called a population level effect.

12. But Eretria was a polis which could wage war on Xerxes of Persia if it chose, and it did.

13. Aristotle lived at the virtual cusp of the world of the autonomous city-state of the Greek polis.

14. Outside of the major inter-polis sanctuaries, there were no modes of worshipping Zeus precisely shared across the Greek world.

15. In Cyprus there is a town called Polis on the northern coast of the Republic of Cyprus, identified with the Ancient Lampa .

16. Christiano Sosa, executive director of The Arc of Colorado, added, “We applaud the Polis Administration for prioritizing individuals with disabilities in the vaccine framework

17. The universal state will never allow for or does not allow for the kind of self-perfection that a small, self-governing polis will have.

18. This is especially true of the Theban plays but applies also to Electra and even to the three plays not actually set in a polis, Ajax, Philoctetes, Trachiniae.

19. In this genre there is no praise of individual; it is a laudation of the collective Athenians, which is turned into an encomium of the greatness of the polis.

20. After Atheno-Peloponnesian War, the ancient Greek polis declined. But their humanism ideas have passed through the long history and gotten into the tradition of the western humanism.

21. Ancient Thebes (Ancient Greek: Θῆβαι) was a Boeotian city-state (polis), situated to the north of the Cithaeron range, which divides Boeotia from Attica, and on the southern edge of the Boeotian plain

22. Corinth is the name of an ancient Greek polis (city-state) and nearby isthmus that lent its name to a set of Panhellenic games, a war, and a style of architecture

23. Polis took a victory lap and Arrogantly claimed credit for the widely successful Meat In Day across Colorado Saturday as residents celebrated the state’s agriculture and livestock industries by eating all that it offered

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25. An acropolis ( Greek: Ακρόπολις; akros, akron, edge, extremity + polis, city; plural: Acropoleis or acropolises) is a settlement, especially a citadel, built upon an area of elevated ground—frequently a hill with precipitous sides, chosen for purposes of defense.

26. The name derives from the Greek akro, high or extreme/extremity or edge, and polis, city, translated as 'high city', 'city on the edge' or 'city in the air', the most famous being the Acropolis of Athens, Greece, built in the 5th century BCE.

27. Campeche Island (Ilha do Campeche) is one of the top attractions for ecotourism and Adventure travel in Florianópolis.Easy to reach from Florianópolis, the island listed as an Archaeological and Landscape Heritage Site by IPHAN (Brazil's National Historical and Artistic Heritage Institute) is …

28. Artfulest folk of the em j the Great Fash ion Article, by Jennie June, whose spright ly note upon the latest ami most perfect New York modes aro suggestive to leaders of society everywhere, and universally consul ted both in the metre polis and throughout the …

29. As nouns the difference between Conurbation and metropolis is that Conurbation is a continuous aggregation of built-up urban communities created as a result of urban sprawl while metropolis is (history) the mother (founding) polis (city state) of a colony, especially in the ancient greek/hellenistic world.

30. Está formada por 5 sílabas y 11 letras.; Amalgamarse es una palabra llana o grave, ya que su sílaba tónica recae sobre la penúltima sílaba.; Amalgamarse es una palabra polisílaba, ya

31. From akros or akron, "highest", "topmost", "outermost" and polis, "city"; plural in English: acropoles, Acropoleis or acropolises) is a settlement, especially a citadel, built upon an area of elevated ground - frequently a hill with precipitous sides, chosen

32. From akros or akron, "highest", "topmost", "outermost" and polis, "city"; plural in English: acropoles, acropoleis or Acropolises) is a settlement, especially a citadel, built upon an area of elevated ground - frequently a hill with precipitous sides, chosen

33. An acropolis (Greek: ἀκρόπολις; from akros or akron, "highest", "topmost", "outermost" and polis, "city"; plural in English: acropoles, Acropoleis oracropolises) is a settlement, especially a citadel, built upon an area of elevated ground (usually a hill with precipitous sides) chosen for defense.

34. An acropolis (Ancient Greek: ἀκρόπολις, akropolis; from akros (άκρος) or akron (άκρον), "highest, topmost, outermost" and polis (πόλις), "city"; plural in English: acropoles, Acropoleis or acropolises) was an ancient Greek settlement, especially a citadel, built upon an area of elevated ground—frequently a hill with precipitous sides, chosen for purposes of defense.

35. Athenian democracy developed around the 6th century BC in the Greek city-state (known as a polis) of Athens, comprising the city of Athens and the surrounding territory of Attica.Although Athens is the most famous ancient Greek democratic city-state, it was not the only one, nor was it the first; multiple other city-states adopted similar democratic constitutions before Athens.

36. Attic Greek is the Greek dialect of the ancient region of Attica, including the polis of Athens.Often called classical Greek, it was the prestige dialect of the Greek world for centuries and remains the standard form of the language that is taught to students of ancient Greek.As the basis of the Hellenistic Koine, it is the most similar of the ancient dialects to later Greek.

37. Antron (Ancient Greek: Ἀντρών) or Antrones (Ἀντρῶνες) was a town and polis (city-state) of ancient Thessaly in the district Achaea Phthiotis, at the entrance of the Maliac Gulf, and opposite Oreus in Euboea.It is mentioned in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad as one of the cities of Protesilaus, and also in the Homeric hymn to Demeter as under the protection of that goddess.