Usually means: Ancient Greek city-state community.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word polis:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. -polis, polis: Merriam-Webster
  2. polis, polis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. polis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. polis: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Polis, polis: Wordnik
  6. Polis, -polis, polis: Wiktionary
  7. polis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. polis: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. -polis, polis: Dictionary.com
  10. Polis (app), Polis (disambiguation), Polis (journalism think tank), Polis, -polis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. polis (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. polis: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. polis-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Nelson Political Science Glossary (No longer online)
  2. -polis, polis: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. -polis, polis: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. POLIS: Acronym Finder
  2. polis: Glosario de términos filosóficos (en inglés)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. polis: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Polis)

noun:  (historical) A Greek city-state.
noun:  (uncountable, Scotland, Ireland, Geordie) The police.
noun:  (countable, Scotland, Ireland, Geordie) A police officer.
noun:  A surname.

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