A city that is the center of cotton production or trade; historically used to describe Manchester, England during the Industrial Revolution.
Cotton (from Arabic qutun) + -opolis (from Greek polis meaning 'city'). The -opolis suffix appears in Minneapolis, Annapolis, and Acropolis.
Manchester, England earned the nickname 'Cottonopolis' because it processed more cotton than anywhere else on Earth—mills powered by steam transformed a small town into a global industrial powerhouse by 1850.
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