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Bolis vs Polis - What's the difference?

bolis | polis |

As nouns the difference between bolis and polis

is that bolis is a meteor or brilliant shooting star, followed by a train of light or sparks; especially one which explodes while polis is a city, or a city-state.

As a proper noun Polis is

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bolis

English

Noun

  • A meteor or brilliant shooting star, followed by a train of light or sparks; especially one which explodes.
  • * 1851 , British Association for the Advancement of Science, Report (volume 20, page 90)
    • A bolis appearing as large as an orange, with a train some yards in length, crossed Wrenbury, Cheshire, about 10 p.m. (p. 305). The observer was my brother, Mr. William Thomson, surgeon, Wrenbury, near Nantwich.
    (Webster 1913) ----

    polis

    English

    (wikipedia polis)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A city, or a city-state.
  • * 2006 , Karen Armstrong, The Great Transformation , Atlantic Books 2007, p. 161:
    • By the end of the century, poleis had been established throughout the Hellenic world, all bearing a marked family resemblance.
    Derived terms
    * -polis * acropolis * akropolis * cosmopolis * ecumenopolis * Indianapolis * megapolis * megalopolis * metropolis * necropolis * nekropolis * technopolis

    Etymology 2

    From police, compare (etyl) polis.

    Alternative forms

    * pollis

    Noun

  • (uncountable, Geordie) The police.
  • (countable, Geordie) A policeman or policewoman.
    • Synonyms
    * (the police) see * (police officer) see
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