"acropolis" meaning in English

See acropolis in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /əˈkɹɒpəlɪs/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-acropolis.wav , LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-acropolis.wav Forms: acropolises [plural], acropoleis [plural]
enPR: əkrŏʹpəlĭs [Received-Pronunciation] Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀκρόπολις (akrópolis), from ἄκρος (ákros, “topmost”, “tip”, “summit”) + πόλις (pólis, “city”); By surface analysis, acro- + -polis. Etymology templates: {{lbor|en|grc|ἀκρόπολις}} Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀκρόπολις (akrópolis), {{surf|en|acro-|-polis}} By surface analysis, acro- + -polis Head templates: {{en-noun|+|acropoleis}} acropolis (plural acropolises or acropoleis)
  1. A promontory (usually fortified with a citadel) forming the hub of many Grecian cities, and around which many were built for defensive purposes before and during the classical period; compare Acropolis. Synonyms: akropolis Related terms: acropolitan (english: pertaining adjective), acropoli [nonstandard, plural] Translations (promontory of Ancient Greek cities): ἀκρόπολις (akrópolis) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), ակրոպոլիս (akropolis) (Armenian), akropoli (Basque), acròpolis [feminine] (Catalan), akropole [feminine] (Czech), akropolis [feminine] (Czech), akropolis (Finnish), acropole [feminine] (French), აკროპოლისი (aḳroṗolisi) (Georgian), ακρόπολη (akrópoli) [feminine] (Greek), akropolis (Indonesian), а́кропол (ákropol) [masculine] (Macedonian), akropol [masculine] (Polish), acrópole [feminine] (Portuguese), acropolă [feminine] (Romanian), акрополь (akropolʹ) [masculine] (Russian), acrópolis [feminine] (Spanish), akropolis (Tagalog), akropolis (Turkish)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.