What does metropolis mean?
Definitions for metropolis
mɪˈtrɒp ə lɪsme·trop·o·lis
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Princeton's WordNet
city, metropolis, urban centernoun
a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts
"Ancient Troy was a great city"
city, metropolisnoun
people living in a large densely populated municipality
"the city voted for Republicans in 1994"
GCIDE
Metropolisnoun
Any large city.
Wiktionary
metropolisnoun
The mother (founding) polis (city state) of a colony, especially in the Ancient Greek/Hellenistic world.
metropolisnoun
A large, busy city, especially as the main city in an area or country or as distinguished from surrounding rural areas.
metropolisnoun
The see of a metropolitan archbishop, ranking above its suffragan diocesan bishops.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
METROPOLISnoun
The mother city; the chief city of any country or district.
Etymology: metropolis, Latin; metropole, French; μήτηρ and ϖόλις.
His eye discovers unaware
The goodly prospect of some foreign land,
First seen: or some renown’d metropolis,
With glistering spires and pinnacles adorn’d. John Milton.Reduc’d in careful watch
Round their metropolis. John Milton, Par. Lost, b. x.We stopped at Pavia, that was once the metropolis of a kingdom, but at present a poor town. Joseph Addison, on Italy.
Wikipedia
Metropolis
A metropolis () is a large city or conurbation which is a significant economic, political, and cultural center for a country or region, and an important hub for regional or international connections, commerce, and communications. A big city belonging to a larger urban agglomeration, but which is not the core of that agglomeration, is not generally considered a metropolis but a part of it. The plural of the word is metropolises, although the Latin plural is metropoles, from the Greek metropoleis (μητρoπόλεις). For urban centers outside metropolitan areas that generate a similar attraction on a smaller scale for their region, the concept of the regiopolis ("regio" for short) was introduced by urban and regional planning researchers in Germany in 2006.
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metropolis
A metropolis is a large, important city in a country or region, typically serving as a central hub for economic, political, cultural, and social activities. It is often the capital or the most populous city in the region, characterized by significant infrastructure, landmarks, and a high population density. The term can also refer to a central city and its surrounding regions, together functioning as a major integrated network.
Webster Dictionary
Metropolisnoun
the mother city; the chief city of a kingdom, state, or country
Metropolisnoun
the seat, or see, of the metropolitan, or highest church dignitary
Etymology: [L. metropolis, Gr. , prop., the mother city (in relation to colonies); mother + city. See Mother, and Police.]
Wikidata
Metropolis
A metropolis is a very large city or urban area which is a significant economic, political, and cultural center for a country or region, and an important hub for regional or international connections, commerce, and communications. The term is Greek and means the "mother city" of a colony, that is, the city which sent out settlers. This was later generalized to a city regarded as a center of a specified activity, or any large, important city in a nation. Urban areas of fewer than one million people are rarely considered metropolises in contemporary contexts. Big cities belonging to a larger urban agglomeration, but which are not the core of that agglomeration, are not generally considered a metropolis but a part of it. The plural of the word is most commonly metropolises. For urban centers outside metropolitan areas that generate a similar attraction at smaller scale for their region, the term Regiopolis was introduced by German professors in 2006.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Metropolis
me-trop′o-lis, n. the capital of a country; the chief cathedral city, as Canterbury of England: the mother-city of an ancient Greek colony: a generic focus in the distribution of plants or animals:—pl. Metrop′olises.—adj. Metropol′itan, belonging to a metropolis: pertaining to the mother-church.—n. the bishop of a metropolis, presiding over the other bishops of a province: an archbishop.—n. Metropol′itanate.—adjs. Metropol′itic, -al. [L.,—Gr. mētēr, mother, polis, a city.]
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of metropolis in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of metropolis in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of metropolis in a Sentence
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
Sydney Airport is a city that has never really invested deeply in a cohesive plan for being congruent -- at least until now, you look at the city center and it's towering with soaring corporate buildings or incredible colonial era buildings. But the minute you leave these areas, you're faced with a' city' that feels half metropolis and half suburban.
While elements of the Iraqi Army have gradually been able to evict ISIS from Iraq's smaller towns and cities, the challenge of liberating Mosul was of a whole different order of magnitude, it’s a vast metropolis that had millions of inhabitants, enormous sectarian and ethnic complexity, and was the historical bastion of Sunni [ Muslim ] revanchism in Iraq. The fight was always going to be toughest in Mosul, which is why it was left for last.
The harmony of the nation is promoted and the whole Union is knit together by the sentiments of mutual respect, the habits of social intercourse, and the ties of personal friendship formed between the representatives of its several parts in the performance of their service at this metropolis.
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- حا� رةArabic
- metròpoli, metròpolisCatalan, Valencian
- MetropoleGerman
- urbegoEsperanto
- metrópoliSpanish
- کلانشهر, متروپلPersian
- metropoli, suurkaupunki, metropolisFinnish
- métropoleFrench
- ceannchathairIrish
- राजधानीHindi
- metropoliItalian
- メトロポリス, 大都市Japanese
- ទីក្រុងមេ, មាតុក្រុងKhmer
- 중심지Korean
- metropolisLatin
- wereldstad, metropool, grootstad, moederstadDutch
- metropoliaPolish
- metrópolePortuguese
- центр, столица, мегаполис, метрополияRussian
- storstad, metropolSwedish
- daklunsodTagalog
- شہرUrdu
- siêu đô thịVietnamese
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