metropolis

Speech parts

1. metropolis - Noun

2. Metropolis - Proper noun

Meaning

The mother city; the chief city of a kingdom, state, or country.

The seat, or see, of the metropolitan, or highest church dignitary.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

city megalopolis metropolitan area capital city urban sprawl apple venetian corinthian canton cambria trojan burg center principality hamlet
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Antonyms

grove heath glade forestry burgh outback
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Hypernyms

municipality

Hyponyms

provincial capital state capital national capital

Related terms

megalopolis regiopolis

Phrases with the word

super metropolis midwest metropolis beachside metropolis european metropolis arabian metropolis soviet metropolis

Examples

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo. John Kenneth Galbraith

The capitalists of a country which manages to capture foreign markets from other countries are able to increase their profits at the expense of the capitalists of the other countries. Similarly, a colonial metropolis may achieve an export surplus through investment in its dependencies. Michal Kalecki

But what is to be the fate of the great wen of all? The monster, called, by the silly coxcombs of the press, "the metropolis of the empire?" William Cobbett

All great art is born of the metropolis. Ezra Pound

Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable. Garrett Hardin

The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy. Georg Simmel

Close letter words and terms

metroplex metropolarity metropole metropolis boundary Metropolis light transport metropolis of the south