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adj
Of or characteristic of the Ecumenopolis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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adj
Of or conducive to the development, befitting the scale, or characteristic of an ecumenopolis or ecumenopoleis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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noun
An inhabitant of the Ecumenopolis, especially during its inchoate phase.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
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noun
An inhabitant of an ecumenopolis, especially one actively involved in its political arena.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Adjectival sense first attested in 1969; nominal sense in 1977: Ecumenopolis + -itan, formed on the pattern of megalopolitan, necropolitan.
From ecumenopolis + -ity + -an. First reliably attested in 1974: either, as from Ecumenopolitan, or a generalised use thereof, parallel with the development of ecumenopolis.
