1. metropolis - Noun
2. Metropolis - Proper noun
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 dictionaryThe 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