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单词 megapolis
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megapolisn.

Brit. /mɛˈɡapəlɪs/, /mɛˈɡapl̩ɪs/, U.S. /mɛˈɡæpələs/, /mɛˈɡɑpələs/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin megapolis.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin megapolis (a1605) < ancient Greek μεγα- mega- comb. form + πόλις (see -polis comb. form). Compare megalopolis n.
A chief or capital city; (gen.) a large city. Occasionally as a name applied to such a city. Also in extended use. Cf. megalopolis n.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > [noun] > chief town or capital city
headeOE
mother-boroughc1225
master-borougha1325
sedea1387
chief1393
master-townc1400
metropolitan?a1439
capital city1439
master citya1450
stade1481
metropolea1500
capital1525
seatc1540
head-place1546
chamber1555
mother city1570
metropolis1584
metropolite1591
madam-town1593
capital town1601
seat-town1601
metropolie1633
megapolis1638
county seat1803
Queen City1807
metrop1888
Metroland1951
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 61 [Amadavad is] at this present the Megapolis of Cambaya.
1665 J. Crowne Pandion & Amphigenia i. 38 They apprehended him, and with speed conveyed him to Megapolis, the Metropolitan City of Hiarba's dominions.
1855 I. C. Pray Mem. J. G. Bennett 450 Capital alone is wanting to make this city in point of influence..the megapolis of the world.
1958 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 52 597/1 The author is in pursuit of a science of world (economic) development..and builds his theoretic structure..to include..the future growth of the megapolis, the proportionate relationship between communications and nationalism, [etc.].
1992 Sunday Observer (Sri Lanka) 6 Sept. (New Delhi ed.) (Colour Mag.) 8/7 The man who mastered the willow in the narrow lanes of the megapolis' Chikalwadi.
1993 A. Higgins Lions of Grunewald vii. 43 Yet these abodes were tenantless and humbled centres of finished ambitions for das tausendjährige Reich, hereabouts as dead and gone as Tara or Stonehenge, the Alhambra or the megapolis of Allied and Axis dead at El Alamain.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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