Definitions for Polis
ˈpoʊ lɪspo·lis

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1. Polis

   Polis, plural poleis, literally means city in Greek. It could also mean citizenship and body of citizens. In modern historiography "polis" is normally used to indicate the ancient Greek city-states, like Classical Athens and its contemporaries, so polis is often translated as "city-state". Ancient Greek city-states, which developed during the Archaic period, the ancestor of city, state and citizenship, and persisted well into Roman times, when the equivalent Latin word was civitas, also meaning "citizenhood", while municipium applied to a non-sovereign local entity. The term city-state which originated in English does not fully translate the Greek term. The poleis were not like other primordial ancient city-states like Tyre or Sidon, which were ruled by a king or a small oligarchy, but rather a political entity ruled by its body of citizens. The traditional view of archaeologists, that the appearance of urbanization at excavation sites could be read as a sufficient index for the development of a polis was criticised by François Polignac in 1984 and has not been taken for granted in recent decades: the polis of Sparta for example was established in a network of villages. The term polis, which in archaic Greece meant city, changed with the development of the governance center in the city to indicate state, and finally with the emergence of a citizenship notion between the land owners it came to describe the entire body of citizens. The ancient Greeks did not always refer to Athens, Sparta, Thebes, and other poleis as such; they often spoke instead of the Athenians, Lacedaemonians, Thebans and so on. The body of citizens came to be the most important meaning of the term polis in ancient Greece as a polis.

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1. POLIS

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Polis is ranked #28940 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Polis surname appeared 821 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Polis.
   
   93.6% or 769 total occurrences were White.
   4.2% or 35 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.2% or 10 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0.6% or 5 total occurrences were Asian.

Anagrams for Polis »

1. spoil

How to pronounce Polis?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Polis in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Polis in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of Polis in a Sentence

1. Reggie Wassana:

   When then-Gov. Evans made that proclamation, he said that John Hickenlooper can hunt Native people, just as if John Hickenlooper could hunt a buffalo, an antelope, an elk, a deer. It was open season, and we do appreciate what Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has acknowledged. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis wants to try to make a wrong right. And that's what we're here for today and that's what we look forward to, is that we would like to see all those wrongs that were done all those years ago come back to right.

2. Finley Peter Dunne:

   Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th'ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward.

3. William Bailey:

   He [Polis] felt that the 110-year sentence was too severe. And we told him that we agreed with that. We also told him, he should stay out of it.

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References

1. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Polis
2. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html