单词 | metropole |
释义 | metropolen. 1. a. The chief town of a country or district; = metropolis n. 3a; (in extended use) any large bustling city. In later use frequently archaic or poetic. 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 a1500 (c1400) St. Erkenwald (1977) 26 London..Þe metropol, and þe mayster-toun. 1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 151/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II Dublin..being the metropole and chiefe citie of the whole land. 1587 J. Hooker tr. Giraldus Cambrensis Vaticinall Hist. Conquest Ireland i. ii. 4/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II Bath, which was the metropole of Summersetshire. 1685 E. Stillingfleet Origines Britannicæ iv. 196 Those Cities which had the Title of Augusta conferred upon them, were..chief Metropoles of the Provinces. 1872 Overland Monthly 9 168 A place of pleasant memories—a spot so near the metropole, and yet so wild and picturesque in its grand nature. 1936 W. Stevens Ideas of Order 34 But the sustenance of the wilderness Does not sustain us in the metropoles. 1937 A. Huxley Let. 3 June (1969) 422 Our nearest railway is Santa Fe, 70 miles away, and our metropole is Denver at 350 miles. 1989 Cape Times 12 Jan. 11/3 When urbanization meant the growth of more metropoles spread evenly throughout the country, it could have some advantages. 2008 P. O'Flanagan Port Cities Atlantic Iberia Concl. 286 The metropoles as primary port cities during the period of the monopoly, and beyond it in the case of Lisbon, won their prominence from trading. b. The parent state or mother city of a colony; a mother country. Cf. metropolis n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > [noun] > aggregate of sovereign states under one rule > mother country in relation to colonies metropolisa1568 home country1707 mother country1732 metropole1803 motherland1835 1803 Plan National Improvem. p. xii The mother country should never depend upon her foreign possessions. Colonies, to be useful and safe, must depend upon her Metropole. 1839 J. H. Frere tr. Aristophanes Birds (1840) 14 And would it not serve you birds for a Metropole?.. From that position you'll command mankind, And keep them in utter thorough subjugation. 1907 Polit. Sci. Q. 22 351 French colonial trade would be increased to the mutual advantage of both metropole and colonies. 1914 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 8 101 The convention..specifically arranges for the adhesion of métropoles for their non-sovereign entities. 1937 Jrnl. Negro Educ. 6 75/1 The economic realities involved in the artificial relationship between metropole and colonial possession. 1969 A. G. Frank Lat. Amer. (1970) i. 4 A..largely erroneous view is that the development of these underdeveloped countries..must and will be generated or stimulated by diffusing capital, institutions, values, etc., to them from the international and national capitalist metropoles. 1973 Caribbean Contact Jan. 10/2 The ill-defined..countries of the Caribbean Sea are becoming states in their own right, and are slowly..severing their traditional ties with their respective European metropoles. 1991 Afr. Affairs 90 629 Colonial states were simultaneously strong and weak: strong because they had behind them the coercive apparatus of the metropole. 2002 C. Hall Civilising Subjects Introd. 8 The relations between colony and metropole were relations of power. 2. Christian Church. The see of a metropolitan bishop; = metropolis n. 1. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > metropolitan > [noun] > see of provincea1382 metropolis1516 mother city1570 metropolite1591 metropolie1633 metropolicality1637 metropole1862 1862 J. M. Neale Ess. Liturgiol. (1867) 300 That was a remarkable erection of metropoles which occurred just before the outbreak. 1888 Church Times 27 Apr. 364/3 York was designated as a metropole by St. Gregory, and did exercise some undefined jurisdiction over other sees in the North. 1912 Catholic Encycl. XIV. 14/2 A little before 1315 the Bishop of Sinope, driven out of his see by the Turks, received in compensation the metropoles of Sida and Sylæos. 3. A luxury hotel. Now rare except in the names of such hotels.Frequently, with capital initial, short for Metropole Hotel (cf. French Hôtel Métropole). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > public lodging-places > [noun] > hotel hotel1687 hotel garni1744 lodgea1817 gasthof1832 temperance house1833 temperance hotel1837 railway hotel1839 palace hotel1844 parador1845 caravanserai1848 resort hotel1886 metropole1890 Ritz1900 trust house1902 apartment hotel1909 welfare hotel1915 motel1925 motor hotel1925 auto court1926 motor court1936 motor lodge1936 residential1940 botel1956 floatel1959 apartotel1965 motor inn1967 1869 Bradshaw's Illustr. Handbk. Switzerland 12 Grand Hôtel de la Métropole...A fine handsome first-rate hotel..elegantly fitted up with every English comfort.] 1890 W. Booth In Darkest Eng. ii. vi. 209 A superior lodging-house, a sort of poor man's Metropole. 1925 E. Sitwell Troy Park 74 That child is the small wicked ghost Of Metropoles and oyster bars. 1999 C. Creedon Passion Play xiv. 101 Sure didn't most of us go down to the Metropole for a jar after the removal! This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1500 |
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