Definition of metropolis in English:

metropolis

noun mɪˈtrɒp(ə)lɪsməˈtrɑp(ə)ləs

1The capital or chief city of a country or region.
he preferred the peaceful life of the countryside to the bustle of the metropolis
Example sentencesExamples
- The water supply and underground water systems in Taipei are outdated for the modern metropolis that is the nation's capital.
- It may be that what happens in half a dozen great conurbations mirrors life in the metropolis.
- They could have knock that sort of split but there does not seem to be one voice in favour of two county teams from the metropolis.
- He said that in other metropolises such as Tokyo, people living in suburban areas were still considered to be Tokyo residents.
- The city formerly known as Saigon is a sprawling, bustling metropolis in the south of Vietnam.
- This has the look of an inner London borough on a bright Saturday, a feeling of a village within a huge metropolis.
- A capitalist centre or metropolis with a number of colonies or areas of interests was thus the norm.
- I had expected to escape the bustle of the metropolis and soak in the undisturbed beauty of nature.
- The city edged out the other 49 metropolises we surveyed because it's so easy to stay fit, eat healthy, and access natural therapies there.
- The modern metropolis of Shanghai was once a small village facing the East China Sea.
- Lagado is the capital metropolis of Balnibari, the continent of the land of Laputa.
- The trio crashed through the dangling remains, now in the rough suburbs of the metropolis.
- Four thousand years ago Kerma, the capital of the kingdom of Kush, was a massive metropolis, the first in sub-Saharan Africa.
- At one end it bleeds into the metropolis of Kansas City and at the other is farmland and small towns.
- As major metropolises and sites of colonial contestation, all five cities, including Paris, share similarly complex histories.
- Located far away from the hustle and bustle of a metropolis, the choice of venue was well and truly acknowledged by all concerned.
- City centers, especially in the nation's biggest metropolises, have become hosts to resurgent capital markets.
- Ironically, the network which leads the girl away from her little village to the metropolis does not figure anywhere.
- I did not have high expectations about my trip before setting off because I thought Seoul would turn out to be a modern city comparable to other world metropolises without any special features.
- When you compare that great city to the other major metropolises of the world, how's London doing?
Synonyms
capital (city), chief town, state/regional/provincial capital, county town, county borough, administrative centre
1. 1.1 A very large and busy city.
  by the late eighteenth century Edo had grown to a metropolis with a population of nearly one million
  Example sentencesExamples
  Here the small town atmosphere is intermixed with the comforts of a metropolis.
  It was closed off when communist rule was imposed in 1949 but is now regaining its reputation as a cosmopolitan metropolis.
  The larger the metropolis grows, the less coherent its image becomes.
  Mini-flats have been common in metropolises such as New York and Hong Kong, where markets have rushed to adapt to high land prices and huge populations.
  Shanghai's amazing economic growth is promoting the city into a metropolis.
  Some of these artists choose to live in major metropolises, especially Los Angeles and New York City, but others are widely dispersed.
  It was a rather dreary day outside, which really wasn't unusual in the busy metropolis of San Francisco.
  Currently, 28 per cent of our population is urban, residing in 23 metropolises with a population of more than one million each, and five mega cities with a population of more than five million each.
  A miniature village at the bottom of a Gorse Hill garden is fast evolving into a sprawling metropolis.
  In its heyday, the urban sketch was a byproduct of the concurrent rise of newspapers and population growth in metropolises.
  This is the urban America that is still growing rapidly, and creating brand new metropolises in such places as Houston, Los Angeles, and Phoenix.
  Indeed, there is already evidence of a developing counter-flow of population generally, away from the major metropolises.
  The child's cry of concern went on unheard, a faint whisper amidst the busy streets of a crowded metropolis.
  It had grown from a cluster of stone buildings to a high-tech metropolis reaching kilometers in the air.
  Vancouver is a rare city - a metropolis that pretty much has it all, yet avoids being bland, boring or smug.
  She was to buy a train ticket to Lanzhou, a polluted industrial metropolis in northern China with a large addict population.
  Synonyms
  big city, conurbation, megalopolis, urban sprawl, concrete jungle
  informal big smoke
  archaic wen

Origin

Late Middle English (denoting the see of a metropolitan bishop): via late Latin from Greek mētropolis 'mother state', from mētēr, mētr- 'mother' + polis 'city'.

police from Late Middle English:
In the 15th century police, which came from medieval Latin politia ‘citizenship, government’, was another word for policy, from the same source. Over time the word came to mean ‘civil administration’ and then ‘maintenance of public order’. The first people to be called police in the current sense was the Marine Police, a force set up around 1798 to protect merchant shipping in the Port of London. The police force established for London in 1829 was for some time known as the New Police. See also constable, copper. Latin politia had been borrowed from Greek polis ‘city, state’, also found in metropolis (Late Middle English) ‘mother city’ in Greek; acropolis (mid 17th century)‘high city’; cosmopolitan (mid 17th century) from kosmos, ‘world’; and politics. We have the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle to thank for politics. Aristotle, a pupil of Plato and tutor to Alexander the Great, wrote a treatise called ta politika, or ‘The Affairs of State’, which gave us our word. The concept of political correctness originated in the USA during the 1980s but the expression dates back a lot longer. It is recorded in 1840 in the USA, and politically correct goes back even further, to 1793, in the records of the US Supreme Court. Originally both terms referred to people conforming to the prevailing political views of the time.

Rhymes

acropolis, cosmopolis, Heliopolis, megalopolis, necropolis

Definition of metropolis in US English:

metropolis

nounməˈträp(ə)ləsməˈtrɑp(ə)ləs

1The capital or chief city of a country or region.
he preferred the peaceful life of the countryside to the bustle of the metropolis
Example sentencesExamples
- They could have knock that sort of split but there does not seem to be one voice in favour of two county teams from the metropolis.
- The modern metropolis of Shanghai was once a small village facing the East China Sea.
- Located far away from the hustle and bustle of a metropolis, the choice of venue was well and truly acknowledged by all concerned.
- Ironically, the network which leads the girl away from her little village to the metropolis does not figure anywhere.
- City centers, especially in the nation's biggest metropolises, have become hosts to resurgent capital markets.
- At one end it bleeds into the metropolis of Kansas City and at the other is farmland and small towns.
- I did not have high expectations about my trip before setting off because I thought Seoul would turn out to be a modern city comparable to other world metropolises without any special features.
- This has the look of an inner London borough on a bright Saturday, a feeling of a village within a huge metropolis.
- Lagado is the capital metropolis of Balnibari, the continent of the land of Laputa.
- The water supply and underground water systems in Taipei are outdated for the modern metropolis that is the nation's capital.
- A capitalist centre or metropolis with a number of colonies or areas of interests was thus the norm.
- I had expected to escape the bustle of the metropolis and soak in the undisturbed beauty of nature.
- The trio crashed through the dangling remains, now in the rough suburbs of the metropolis.
- Four thousand years ago Kerma, the capital of the kingdom of Kush, was a massive metropolis, the first in sub-Saharan Africa.
- It may be that what happens in half a dozen great conurbations mirrors life in the metropolis.
- He said that in other metropolises such as Tokyo, people living in suburban areas were still considered to be Tokyo residents.
- As major metropolises and sites of colonial contestation, all five cities, including Paris, share similarly complex histories.
- The city edged out the other 49 metropolises we surveyed because it's so easy to stay fit, eat healthy, and access natural therapies there.
- When you compare that great city to the other major metropolises of the world, how's London doing?
- The city formerly known as Saigon is a sprawling, bustling metropolis in the south of Vietnam.
Synonyms
capital, capital city, chief town, provincial capital, regional capital, state capital, county town, county borough, administrative centre
1. 1.1 A very large and densely populated industrial and commercial city.
  by the late eighteenth century Edo had grown to a metropolis with a population of nearly one million
  Example sentencesExamples
  The child's cry of concern went on unheard, a faint whisper amidst the busy streets of a crowded metropolis.
  She was to buy a train ticket to Lanzhou, a polluted industrial metropolis in northern China with a large addict population.
  It was closed off when communist rule was imposed in 1949 but is now regaining its reputation as a cosmopolitan metropolis.
  The larger the metropolis grows, the less coherent its image becomes.
  This is the urban America that is still growing rapidly, and creating brand new metropolises in such places as Houston, Los Angeles, and Phoenix.
  It was a rather dreary day outside, which really wasn't unusual in the busy metropolis of San Francisco.
  Mini-flats have been common in metropolises such as New York and Hong Kong, where markets have rushed to adapt to high land prices and huge populations.
  Indeed, there is already evidence of a developing counter-flow of population generally, away from the major metropolises.
  Vancouver is a rare city - a metropolis that pretty much has it all, yet avoids being bland, boring or smug.
  Currently, 28 per cent of our population is urban, residing in 23 metropolises with a population of more than one million each, and five mega cities with a population of more than five million each.
  Some of these artists choose to live in major metropolises, especially Los Angeles and New York City, but others are widely dispersed.
  It had grown from a cluster of stone buildings to a high-tech metropolis reaching kilometers in the air.
  Here the small town atmosphere is intermixed with the comforts of a metropolis.
  In its heyday, the urban sketch was a byproduct of the concurrent rise of newspapers and population growth in metropolises.
  A miniature village at the bottom of a Gorse Hill garden is fast evolving into a sprawling metropolis.
  Shanghai's amazing economic growth is promoting the city into a metropolis.
  Synonyms
  big city, conurbation, megalopolis, urban sprawl, concrete jungle

Origin

Late Middle English (denoting the see of a metropolitan bishop): via late Latin from Greek mētropolis ‘mother state’, from mētēr, mētr- ‘mother’ + polis ‘city’.

单词	metropolis
释义	Definition of metropolis in English: metropolis noun mɪˈtrɒp(ə)lɪsməˈtrɑp(ə)ləs 1The capital or chief city of a country or region. he preferred the peaceful life of the countryside to the bustle of the metropolis Example sentencesExamples The water supply and underground water systems in Taipei are outdated for the modern metropolis that is the nation's capital. It may be that what happens in half a dozen great conurbations mirrors life in the metropolis. They could have knock that sort of split but there does not seem to be one voice in favour of two county teams from the metropolis. He said that in other metropolises such as Tokyo, people living in suburban areas were still considered to be Tokyo residents. The city formerly known as Saigon is a sprawling, bustling metropolis in the south of Vietnam. This has the look of an inner London borough on a bright Saturday, a feeling of a village within a huge metropolis. A capitalist centre or metropolis with a number of colonies or areas of interests was thus the norm. I had expected to escape the bustle of the metropolis and soak in the undisturbed beauty of nature. The city edged out the other 49 metropolises we surveyed because it's so easy to stay fit, eat healthy, and access natural therapies there. The modern metropolis of Shanghai was once a small village facing the East China Sea. Lagado is the capital metropolis of Balnibari, the continent of the land of Laputa. The trio crashed through the dangling remains, now in the rough suburbs of the metropolis. Four thousand years ago Kerma, the capital of the kingdom of Kush, was a massive metropolis, the first in sub-Saharan Africa. At one end it bleeds into the metropolis of Kansas City and at the other is farmland and small towns. As major metropolises and sites of colonial contestation, all five cities, including Paris, share similarly complex histories. Located far away from the hustle and bustle of a metropolis, the choice of venue was well and truly acknowledged by all concerned. City centers, especially in the nation's biggest metropolises, have become hosts to resurgent capital markets. Ironically, the network which leads the girl away from her little village to the metropolis does not figure anywhere. I did not have high expectations about my trip before setting off because I thought Seoul would turn out to be a modern city comparable to other world metropolises without any special features. When you compare that great city to the other major metropolises of the world, how's London doing? Synonyms capital (city), chief town, state/regional/provincial capital, county town, county borough, administrative centre 1.1 A very large and busy city. by the late eighteenth century Edo had grown to a metropolis with a population of nearly one million Example sentencesExamples Here the small town atmosphere is intermixed with the comforts of a metropolis. It was closed off when communist rule was imposed in 1949 but is now regaining its reputation as a cosmopolitan metropolis. The larger the metropolis grows, the less coherent its image becomes. Mini-flats have been common in metropolises such as New York and Hong Kong, where markets have rushed to adapt to high land prices and huge populations. Shanghai's amazing economic growth is promoting the city into a metropolis. Some of these artists choose to live in major metropolises, especially Los Angeles and New York City, but others are widely dispersed. It was a rather dreary day outside, which really wasn't unusual in the busy metropolis of San Francisco. Currently, 28 per cent of our population is urban, residing in 23 metropolises with a population of more than one million each, and five mega cities with a population of more than five million each. A miniature village at the bottom of a Gorse Hill garden is fast evolving into a sprawling metropolis. In its heyday, the urban sketch was a byproduct of the concurrent rise of newspapers and population growth in metropolises. This is the urban America that is still growing rapidly, and creating brand new metropolises in such places as Houston, Los Angeles, and Phoenix. Indeed, there is already evidence of a developing counter-flow of population generally, away from the major metropolises. The child's cry of concern went on unheard, a faint whisper amidst the busy streets of a crowded metropolis. It had grown from a cluster of stone buildings to a high-tech metropolis reaching kilometers in the air. Vancouver is a rare city - a metropolis that pretty much has it all, yet avoids being bland, boring or smug. She was to buy a train ticket to Lanzhou, a polluted industrial metropolis in northern China with a large addict population. Synonyms big city, conurbation, megalopolis, urban sprawl, concrete jungle informal big smoke archaic wen Origin Late Middle English (denoting the see of a metropolitan bishop): via late Latin from Greek mētropolis 'mother state', from mētēr, mētr- 'mother' + polis 'city'. police from Late Middle English: In the 15th century police, which came from medieval Latin politia ‘citizenship, government’, was another word for policy, from the same source. Over time the word came to mean ‘civil administration’ and then ‘maintenance of public order’. The first people to be called police in the current sense was the Marine Police, a force set up around 1798 to protect merchant shipping in the Port of London. The police force established for London in 1829 was for some time known as the New Police. See also constable, copper. Latin politia had been borrowed from Greek polis ‘city, state’, also found in metropolis (Late Middle English) ‘mother city’ in Greek; acropolis (mid 17th century)‘high city’; cosmopolitan (mid 17th century) from kosmos, ‘world’; and politics. We have the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle to thank for politics. Aristotle, a pupil of Plato and tutor to Alexander the Great, wrote a treatise called ta politika, or ‘The Affairs of State’, which gave us our word. The concept of political correctness originated in the USA during the 1980s but the expression dates back a lot longer. It is recorded in 1840 in the USA, and politically correct goes back even further, to 1793, in the records of the US Supreme Court. Originally both terms referred to people conforming to the prevailing political views of the time. Rhymes acropolis, cosmopolis, Heliopolis, megalopolis, necropolis Definition of metropolis in US English: metropolis nounməˈträp(ə)ləsməˈtrɑp(ə)ləs 1The capital or chief city of a country or region. he preferred the peaceful life of the countryside to the bustle of the metropolis Example sentencesExamples They could have knock that sort of split but there does not seem to be one voice in favour of two county teams from the metropolis. The modern metropolis of Shanghai was once a small village facing the East China Sea. Located far away from the hustle and bustle of a metropolis, the choice of venue was well and truly acknowledged by all concerned. Ironically, the network which leads the girl away from her little village to the metropolis does not figure anywhere. City centers, especially in the nation's biggest metropolises, have become hosts to resurgent capital markets. At one end it bleeds into the metropolis of Kansas City and at the other is farmland and small towns. I did not have high expectations about my trip before setting off because I thought Seoul would turn out to be a modern city comparable to other world metropolises without any special features. This has the look of an inner London borough on a bright Saturday, a feeling of a village within a huge metropolis. Lagado is the capital metropolis of Balnibari, the continent of the land of Laputa. The water supply and underground water systems in Taipei are outdated for the modern metropolis that is the nation's capital. A capitalist centre or metropolis with a number of colonies or areas of interests was thus the norm. I had expected to escape the bustle of the metropolis and soak in the undisturbed beauty of nature. The trio crashed through the dangling remains, now in the rough suburbs of the metropolis. Four thousand years ago Kerma, the capital of the kingdom of Kush, was a massive metropolis, the first in sub-Saharan Africa. It may be that what happens in half a dozen great conurbations mirrors life in the metropolis. He said that in other metropolises such as Tokyo, people living in suburban areas were still considered to be Tokyo residents. As major metropolises and sites of colonial contestation, all five cities, including Paris, share similarly complex histories. The city edged out the other 49 metropolises we surveyed because it's so easy to stay fit, eat healthy, and access natural therapies there. When you compare that great city to the other major metropolises of the world, how's London doing? The city formerly known as Saigon is a sprawling, bustling metropolis in the south of Vietnam. Synonyms capital, capital city, chief town, provincial capital, regional capital, state capital, county town, county borough, administrative centre 1.1 A very large and densely populated industrial and commercial city. by the late eighteenth century Edo had grown to a metropolis with a population of nearly one million Example sentencesExamples The child's cry of concern went on unheard, a faint whisper amidst the busy streets of a crowded metropolis. She was to buy a train ticket to Lanzhou, a polluted industrial metropolis in northern China with a large addict population. It was closed off when communist rule was imposed in 1949 but is now regaining its reputation as a cosmopolitan metropolis. The larger the metropolis grows, the less coherent its image becomes. This is the urban America that is still growing rapidly, and creating brand new metropolises in such places as Houston, Los Angeles, and Phoenix. It was a rather dreary day outside, which really wasn't unusual in the busy metropolis of San Francisco. Mini-flats have been common in metropolises such as New York and Hong Kong, where markets have rushed to adapt to high land prices and huge populations. Indeed, there is already evidence of a developing counter-flow of population generally, away from the major metropolises. Vancouver is a rare city - a metropolis that pretty much has it all, yet avoids being bland, boring or smug. Currently, 28 per cent of our population is urban, residing in 23 metropolises with a population of more than one million each, and five mega cities with a population of more than five million each. Some of these artists choose to live in major metropolises, especially Los Angeles and New York City, but others are widely dispersed. It had grown from a cluster of stone buildings to a high-tech metropolis reaching kilometers in the air. Here the small town atmosphere is intermixed with the comforts of a metropolis. In its heyday, the urban sketch was a byproduct of the concurrent rise of newspapers and population growth in metropolises. A miniature village at the bottom of a Gorse Hill garden is fast evolving into a sprawling metropolis. Shanghai's amazing economic growth is promoting the city into a metropolis. Synonyms big city, conurbation, megalopolis, urban sprawl, concrete jungle Origin Late Middle English (denoting the see of a metropolitan bishop): via late Latin from Greek mētropolis ‘mother state’, from mētēr, mētr- ‘mother’ + polis ‘city’.
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