"acropoli" meaning in English

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Noun

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  1. (nonstandard) plural of acropolis Tags: form-of, nonstandard, plural Form of: acropolis
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          "text": "1955: The ancient town, above which the modern one was built, has left a confusion of remains. It boasted two acropoli — Ogrizek, Greece (McGraw-Hill 1955, p. 207)"
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          "text": "1958: Here, some eighteen thousand people then lived, surrounded by cyclopean walls of polygonal masonry which, on the western slopes, connected three towers or acropoli at projected points above ravines. — Orcutt William Frost, Young Hearn (Hokuseido 1958, p. 9)"
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          "text": "1996: Then, little by little people built streets and houses that fanned outward in haphazard patterns from the acropoli. — Don Nardo, Life in Ancient Greece (Lucent 1996)"
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          "text": "2004: Their political and religious centers included great acropoli of massed palaces, temples, stone tombs, and ballcourts. — Arthur Demarest, Ancient Maya (Cambridge 2004, p. 1)"
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          "text": "2005: It can be no coincidence that the toponyms associated with these acropoli are based on the word ha, just as we find at Palenque — Keith M. Prufer, In the Maw of the Earth Monster (UNiversity of Texas 2005, p. 163)"
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