global city
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.86 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Example Sentences
- "Today's global cities have been empowered and transformed by the construction of a market economy at a global scale. In this sense, I would argue, the global city must be seen as primarily a political phenomenon."
Etymology
Popularized by Dutch-American sociologist Saskia Sassen in The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo (1991).