Metropolis

Quick meaning: Metropolis is a noun meaning (history, especially Ancient Greece) The mother (founding) polis (city state) of a colony.

Meaning

(history, especially Ancient Greece) The mother (founding) polis (city state) of a colony.

More Meanings

1. A large, busy city, especially as the main city in an area or country or as distinguished from surrounding rural areas.
2. (Orthodox Christianity) The see of a metropolitan bishop, ranking above its suffragan diocesan bishops.
3. (ecology) A generic focus in the distribution of plants or animals.

Example Sentences

Holonym: metropolitan area

Love is dead in metropolis / All contact through glove or partition

An immense metropolis, like London, is calculated to make men selfish and uninteresting.

They call me the Hiphopopotamus / Flows that glow like phosphorous / Popping off the top of this esophagus / Rocking this metropolis

Word Forms

• metropolises
• metropoleis
• metropoles
• metropolizes
• metropoli
• metropolisses
• metropolis's

Synonyms for metropolis

Depending on context, synonyms include metropole, archbishopric, city.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include city, mainland, metropolitan, metropole, urban, town.

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