Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
/mɪˈtɹɒp.ə.lɪs/ · noun
(history, especially Ancient Greece) The mother (founding) polis (city state) of a colony..
Colonies certainly did not become "clones" of their metropolises, but it is equally false that their colonial heritages were not influenced by the organization of the metropolises.
Holonym: metropolitan area
An immense metropolis, like London, is calculated to make men selfish and uninteresting.
[I]t would not be very much less absurd for someone to write about New York City after having spent only a few years or a few decades in this metropolis of inexhaustible adventure, of terrifying emotional fecundity, of uncapturable character.
Love is dead in metropolis / All contact through glove or partition
They call me the Hiphopopotamus / Flows that glow like phosphorous / Popping off the top of this esophagus / Rocking this metropolis
Use metropolis when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Metropolis means (history, especially Ancient Greece) The mother (founding) polis (city state) of a colony..
Common synonyms include mother city, metropole, metropolitan city, archbishopric.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Colonies certainly did not become "clones" of their metropolises, but it is equally false that their colonial heritages were not influenced by the organization of the metropolises.
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.