Population Centers

Member senses (7)

• ἀγρόςfarm settlement, hamlet
  Sense details

  a relatively small village, possibly merely a cluster of farms

  SDBC-GRK-SENSE-000068-03
• κολωνίαcolony
  Sense details

  a city or town with special privileges in that the inhabitants of such a town were regarded as Roman citizens (such towns were originally colonized by citizens of Rome)

  SDBC-GRK-SENSE-002876-01
• κώμηvillage
  Sense details

  a relatively unimportant population center (in contrast with πόλις[b] ‘city,’ semantic domain 1.89)

  SDBC-GRK-SENSE-002985-01
• κωμόπολιςtown, market town
  Sense details

  a city that had the status of a κώμη (semantic domain 1.92) as far as its legal standing or constitution was concerned

  SDBC-GRK-SENSE-002986-01
• παρεμβολήcamp
  Sense details

  a temporary population center consisting of an encampment^{[source note 1]}

  SDBC-GRK-SENSE-003827-01
• πόλιςcity, town
  Sense details

  a population center, in contrast with a rural area or countryside and without specific reference to size^{[source note 1]}

  SDBC-GRK-SENSE-004075-01
• πόλιςcity
  Sense details

  a population center of relatively greater importance (in contrast with κώμη[a] ‘village,’ semantic domain 1.92, and κωμόπολις ‘town,’ semantic domain 1.91), due to its size, economic significance, or political control over a surrounding area (it is possible that fortification of walls and gates also entered into the system of classification of a πόλις[b], in contrast with other terms for population centers)

  SDBC-GRK-SENSE-004075-02