anoikism

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The splitting up of a town into smaller units

    不可数

    As for Singos, Steup thinks that Thucydides' description of the anoikism prevents one from assuming that this town participated in it.

    In one respect conditions were more favorable for the synoikism of Megalopolis than for the anoikism at Olynthos.