ecumenopolitan
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An inhabitant of an ecumenopolis, especially one actively involved in its political arena.
⁽¹⁾ A large share of the ecumenopolitans may not take the trouble to operate their own vehicles. ⁽²⁾ The automata and the ecumenopolitans are inherently symbiotic, but the new breed will be specialists who are virtually bionic.
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Of or conducive to the development, befitting the scale, or characteristic of an ecumenopolis or ecumenopoleis.
[…] “ecumenopolitan” formations.
⁽¹⁾ For the mid 1980s I estimate that at least one million adults belong to the ecumenopolitan stratum; several times as many are in the educational stream with ambitions to join them. ⁽²⁾ Iranians were graduated from North American universities with motivations that are virtually indistinguishable from their classmates, but their command of Asian languages and their entrepreneurship generates a backflow of ecumenopolitan commitments to Asia.
2007: Baleshwar Thakur, George Pomeroy, Chris Cusack, and Sudhir K Thakur [eds.], City, Society, and Planning, volume 1: “City”, page 16 (Concept Publishing Company; →ISBN The prospective urban implies, therefore, ecumenopolitan order.
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From ecumenopolis + -ity + -an. First reliably attested in 1974: either, as from Ecumenopolitan, or a generalised use thereof, parallel with the development of ecumenopolis.
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