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1. (n.) metropolis
any large, busy city, esp. the chief city of a country or region.
2. metropolis
a central place of some activity:
a trading metropolis.
3. metropolis
the mother city or parent state of a colony, esp. of an ancient Greek colony.
Etymology: (1350–1400; ME < LL mētropolis < Gk mētrópolis a mother state or city )
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) city, metropolis, urban center
a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts
"Ancient Troy was a great city"
2. (noun) city, metropolis
people living in a large densely populated municipality
"the city voted for Republicans in 1994"
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) metropolis
the mother city; the chief city of a kingdom, state, or country
2. (noun) metropolis
the seat, or see, of the metropolitan, or highest church dignitary
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Sense: a large city, especially the chief city of a country
London is England's metropolis.
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 Afrikaans: metropool |
 Arabic: المَدينَه الأم، المدينَه |
 Bulgarian: столица |
 Brazilian: metrópole |
 Czech: metropole |
 German: die Hauptstadt |
 Danish: hovedstad |
 Greek: μητρόπολη |
 Spanish: metrópoli |
 Estonian: suurlinn |
 Farsi: کلان شهر |
 Finnish: metropoli |
 French: métropole |
 Hebrew: מֶטרוֹפּוֹלִין |
 Hindi: महानगरी |
 Croatian: glavni grad, metropola |
 Hungarian: főváros |
 Indonesian: kota besar |
 Icelandic: stórborg |
 Italian: metropoli |
 Japanese: 大都市 |
 Korean: 주요 도시 |
 Lithuanian: didžiausias miestas, sost |
 Latvian: metropole; galvaspilsēta |
 Malay: metropolis |
 Dutch: metropool |
 Norwegian: storby, verdensby; hoveds |
 Polish: metropolia |
 Persian: شهر بزرگ |
 Pashto: لوى ښار |
 Portuguese: metrópole |
 Romanian: metropolă |
 Russian: крупный город; столица |
 Slovak: metropola |
 Slovenian: prestolnica |
 Serbian: metropola |
 Swedish: metropol, huvudstad |
 Thai: มหานคร |
 Turkish: büyük kent; başkent |
 Taiwanese: 大都會 |
 Ukrainian: метрополія |
 Urdu: کسی ملک کا سب سے اہم شہر |
 Vietnamese: thủ đô |
 Chinese: 大都会，大城市 |
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