Megapolitan

Quick meaning: Megapolitan is an adjective meaning Of or pertaining to a megapolis (“a very large city or urban complex”).

Meaning

Of or pertaining to a megapolis (“a very large city or urban complex”).

More Meanings

1. Synonym of megapolis.
2. An inhabitant of a megapolis.

Example Sentences

Of the intellectual nature of Bosville, mention has been made already. It is, as we have seen, […] megapolitan, metropolitan, cosmopolitan,[…].

In the US there are 10 megapolitan regions, defined as clustered networks of metropolitan regions that either have populations of more than 10 million or will exceed that number, on current growth projections, by 2010.

The nation's southernmost transcontinental Interstate, I-10, serves as the Gulf Coast's "Main Street." Every major city in the megapolitan area lies along its path. […] Megapolitan Areas are integrated networks of metropolitan and micropolitan areas.

In the United States, trans-metropolitan areas are referred to as megapolitans, large urban regions with physically interconnected metropolitan and micropolitan areas through transportation networks, constituting a functionally interdependent urban network[…].

Word Forms

• megapolitans

Synonyms for megapolitan

Depending on context, synonyms include megalopolitan, megapolis.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include megaindustrial, megascale, mega-scale, mega, multimegaton, monumentous.

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