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(mətrɒpəlɪs)
Word forms: plural metropolises
countable noun [usually singular]
A metropolis is the largest, busiest, and most important city in a country or region.
...the bustling metropolis of Chengdu.
Synonyms: city, town, capital, big city More Synonyms of metropolis

metropolis in British English

(mɪˈtrɒpəlɪs)
nounWord forms: plural -lises
1. 
the main city, esp of a country or region; capital
2. 
a centre of activity
3. 
the chief see in an ecclesiastical province
Word origin
C16: from Late Latin from Greek: mother city or state, from mētēr mother + polis city

metropolis in American English

(məˈtrɑpəlɪs)
nounWord forms: plural meˈtropolises
1. 
the main city, often the capital, of a country, state, or region
2. 
any large city or center of population, culture, etc.
3. 
in ancient Greece, the mother city or state of a colony
Word origin
LL < Gr mētropolis < mētēr, mother1 + polis, a state, city: see police

Examples of 'metropolis' in a sentence
metropolis

The modern metropolis needs new governmental forms.
Peter F. Drucker MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices (1974)
Shenzhen exploded into a sprawling metropolis.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Before the war, predictions of what would happen to a vast metropolis under bombardment from the air had been apocalyptic.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Damascus was the sprawling metropolis.
Christianity Today (2000)
Its colourful past has given it layer upon layer of history, but these days the city is very much a modern metropolis.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
In some respects the dictionary is the ideal form for capturing the diverse, fragmentary yet often interconnected narratives of the modern metropolis.
The Times Literary Supplement (2010)
The setting is this vast, sprawling, soulless metropolis.
The Sun (2011)
But now his own lack of personal organisation has left him in a flat in a part of the sprawling metropolis where taxis don't venture.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
It has been transformed into a modern metropolis, embracing 21st-century style and technology.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Big, brash and full of chutzpah, this modern metropolis has a style and an ambience all of its own.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)

In other languages
metropolis

British English: metropolis NOUN
A metropolis is the largest, busiest, and most important city in a country or region.
...the bustling metropolis.
  • American English: metropolis
  • Brazilian Portuguese: metrópole
  • Chinese: 大都会　
  • European Spanish: metrópoli
  • French: métropole
  • German: Metropole
  • Italian: metropoli
  • Japanese: 大都市
  • Korean: 대도시
  • European Portuguese: metrópole
  • Latin American Spanish: metrópoli

(noun) 
Definition
the main city of a country or region
the bustling metropolis
Synonyms
city
Around the city small groups of police patrolled the streets.
town
The town is under indefinite curfew.
capital
big city
municipality
Traffic is the problem of the municipality.
conurbation
megalopolis

Additional synonyms

in the sense of municipality
Definition
a city, town, or district enjoying local self-government
Traffic is the problem of the municipality.
Synonyms
town,
city,
district,
borough,
township,
burgh (Scottish),
urban community,
dorp (South Africa)
in the sense of town
Definition
a large group of houses, shops, factories, etc., smaller than a city and larger than a village
The town is under indefinite curfew.
Synonyms
city,
settlement,
municipality,
dorp (South Africa)

Nearby words of
metropolis

  • meticulous
  • metier
  • metro
  • metropolis
  • metropolitan
  • mettle
  • mettlesome

Synonyms of 'metropolis'

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