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— English words —

• polis n. (Historical) A Greek city-state.
• polis n. (Uncountable, Scotland, Ireland, Geordie) The police.
• polis n. (Countable, Scotland, Ireland, Geordie) A police officer.
• Polis prop.n. A surname.
• -polis suff. Forms names of cities or kinds of cities.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Azerbaijani
  • polis n. Police (member of the police force).
• Azerbaijani - Turkish
  • polis n. Police (an organisation that enforces the law).
• Catalan
  • polís v. First-person singular imperfect subjunctive form of polir.
  • polís v. Third-person singular imperfect subjunctive form of polir.
• Cebuano
  • polis n. A police officer; a cop.
  • polis n. A civil force granted the legal authority for law enforcement and maintaining public order.
• Czech
  • polis n. Polis (ancient Greek city-state).
  • poliš n. (Colloquial) cop (police officer or prison guard).
  • poliš n. Polish.
• Finnish
  • polis n. (Historical) A Greek city-state.
• Indonesian
  • polis n. Insurance policy.
  • polis n. Nonstandard form of poles.
• Latvian
  • polis n. A Pole, a Polish man, a man born in Poland.
  • polis n. (Genitive plural) Polish; pertaining to Poland and its people.
  • Polis prop.n. A surname originating as a patronymic.
• Malay
  • polis n. (Malaysia, Singapore, Riau) police, a civil force granted the legal authority for law enforcement and…
  • polis n. (Indonesia) alternative spelling of polisi (“policy”), see Indonesian polis (“policy”).
• Northern kurdish
  • polîs n. Police officer.
• Papiamentu
  • polis n. Policeman.
• Papiamentu - Pijin - Tok pisin
  • polis n. Police.
• Pijin
  • polis n. Willy wagtail.
• Romanian
  • polis n. Polis.
• Scots
  • polis n. (Uncountable) police.
  • polis adj. Polish.
  • polis v. Polish.
  • polis v. Adorn, beautify.
• Swedish
  • polis n. (Often in the definite "polisen") police (organization that enforces the law).
  • polis n. A police officer.
• Tok pisin
  • polis n. Polish.
• Turkish
  • polis n. Police officer.

— English words, defined in French —

• polis n. Cité de la Grèce ancienne.
• polis n. (Écosse, Irlande, geordie) Police.
• polis n. (Écosse, Irlande, geordie) Policier.

— English word, defined in Portuguese —

• polis s. Pólis (cidade-estado na antiga Grécia).

— In German —

• Polis S. Stadtstaat des alten Griechenlands.
• -polis nachgestelltes Wortbildungselement mit der Bedeutung: Stadt.

— In Dutch —

• polis n. Schriftelijke vastlegging van een overeenkomst.
• polis n. (Wetenschap) (geschiedenis) (Griekse) stad.
• poli's n. Meervoud van het zelfstandig naamwoord poli.

— In French —

• polis adj. Masculin pluriel de poli.
• polis n.m. Pluriel de poli.
• polis v. Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de polir.
• polis v. Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de polir.
• polis v. Première personne du singulier du passé simple de polir.
• polis v. Deuxième personne du singulier du passé simple de polir.
• polis v. Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de polir.
• polis v. Masculin pluriel du participe passé de polir.

— In Spanish —

• polís v. Segunda persona del singular (vos) del presente de indicativo de polir.
• polís v. Segunda persona del plural (vosotros, vosotras) del presente…

— In Portuguese —

• pólis s. Cidade-estado na Grécia antiga.

— In Italian —

• polis s. (Storia) forma di governo greca che includeva i cittadini…

91 English words from 35 English definitions

Adorn alternative ancient and authority beautify born cities city city␣state civil Colloquial cop Countable definite enforcement enforces First First␣person First-person␣singular for force form Forms Genitive Geordie granted Greek guard Historical imperfect imperfect␣subjunctive Indonesia Indonesian Insurance Insurance␣policy Ireland its kinds kinds␣of law law␣enforcement legal maintaining Malaysia man member names Nonstandard officer Often order organisation organization originating patronymic people person pertaining plural Poland Pole poles police police␣force Policeman police␣officer policy polis Polish prison prison␣guard public Riau Scotland see Singapore singular spelling state subjunctive surname that the Third Third␣person Third-person␣singular Uncountable wagtail Willy Willy␣wagtail

17 English words from 21 foreign definitions

che del der des een estado het Masculin passé persona plural Police Policier Première simple singular van

1 foreign word from 35 English definitions

polir

56 foreign words from 21 foreign definitions

alten ancienne antiga Bedeutung cidade cidade-estado Cité cittadini de␣la Deuxième Deuxième␣personne du␣passé Écosse forma geschiedenis governo greca Grèce Grécia Griechenlands Griekse impératif includeva indicatif indicativo Irlande Meervoud mit naamwoord nachgestelltes overeenkomst participe participe␣passé passé␣simple personne pluriel poli polir Pólis Première␣personne présent presente Segunda Segunda␣persona singulier stad Stadt Stadtstaat Storia vos vosotras vosotros Wetenschap Wortbildungselement zelfstandig zelfstandig␣naamwoord

67 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

polish Polish polisci poli␣sci polises -polises polisht polished polisher polishes polish␣up polisomy Polister Polish␣bed polishers polishest polishing polish␣off polissoir polistine polishable Polish␣beds polishedly polishings polishment Polishness polissoirs polistines polish␣a␣turd polished␣off polishes␣off polishments Polish␣plait Polish␣space polishedness polished␣rice polishing␣off Polish␣plaits Polish␣spaces polishability polished␣a␣turd polished␣rices polishes␣a␣turd Polish␣sausage Polish␣studies Polish␣Corridor polishing␣a␣turd polishing␣slate polishing␣snake Polish␣notation +17 words

149 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

depolish expolish repolish unpolish duopolism duopolist epipolism Old␣Polish pan-Polish tadpolish tadpolism unpolisht anti-Polish clodpolish depolished depolishes duopolists exopolises expolished expolishes monopolise monopolism monopolist nailpolish nail␣polish nanopolish overpolish pigopolist repolished repolishes shoe␣polish unpolished unpolishes acropolises agropolises akropolises apple-polish depolishing duopolistic expolishing helepolises ideopolises megapolises metropolise metropolis's micropolish monopolised monopoliser monopolises monopolisms +99 words

66 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

Napolis Campolis exopolis Leopolis propolis Rispolis tripolis Tripolis acropolis Acropolis agropolis akropolis Annapolis Decapolis helepolis ideopolis megapolis Nicopolis Octopolis Sinopolis Amphipolis Callipolis Cassopolis cosmopolis eperopolis Gallipolis Heliopolis Juteopolis Kallipolis Kannapolis metropolis Metropolis necropolis nekropolis pentapolis Persepolis Petropolis Porkopolis regiopolis tetrapolis Armenopolis Cubitopolis dodecapolis megalopolis Megalopolis Minneapolis technopolis Thermopolis Adrianopolis aerotropolis +16 words

6 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

lis LIS Oli pol POL Pol.

7 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ILO lop Lop sil Sil SIL silo

One anagram (New word found by changing the order of the letters.)

spoil

47 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

apiols Filpos Hislop Lipson lispro loipes O␣clips onslip on-slip oxlips oxslip Paolis Pelosi philos pikols pilons Pilons pilose pilots pilous pilows Pilson pistol plesio- poilus poleis -poleis Polies polios Polios polish Polish pollis polsci posily postil potlis psolid Q-spoil Q␣spoil slip-on sploit spoil'd spoils spoilt Toplis Volpis

43 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

IOPs IOPS ipos IPOs IPSO lipo LiPo lipo- lips Lips LIPs lisp Lisp LISP Lois LOIs lops LPOs LSPI oils OPIs pilo- pils PILs PiOS PIOs pois POIs POIS P.O.I.s pols posi psoi silo SIOP slip slop soil soli Soli Sol␣I sopi splo

23 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

bolis Eolis golis lolis pilis POJIs poles Poles Polie polio Polio polks Polks polls polos polts Polus polys pouis Powis pulis Pulis Solis

5 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

pois POIs POIS P.O.I.s pols

8 epenthesis (New words found when adding only one letter.)

Paolis poleis -poleis Polies polios Polios pollis potlis

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