Metropole
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈmɛtɹəpəʊl/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Metropole is a noun meaning A metropolis; the main city of a country or area.
Meaning
A metropolis; the main city of a country or area.
More Meanings
- The parent-state of a colony.
- (now rare) A bishop's see.
Example Sentences
Though the metropole remained confident in its Westminster ways, its newly independent colonies imposed constitutional constraints on the powers of parliament.
As Europe's population growth and commercial activity slowed down after 1620, its thirst for Spanish-American silver slackened: metropole and colony were drifting apart.
The first Antifas functioned as platforms to organize against far-right groups like the National Democratic Party (NPD) in an autonomist movement still numbering in the tens of thousands of active members and capable of occupying entire city blocks in some West German metropoles.
Word Forms
- metropoles
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include metropolitan, metropolis, megapolis, supercity, megacity, metroplex.
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