Metropolize
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Metropolize is a verb meaning To urbanize; to center or focus on the city.
Meaning
To urbanize; to center or focus on the city.
More Meanings
- To develop into a city or urban area.
- (obsolete) To visit the city.
Example Sentences
Spoon River, like towns in all parts of the country, has become a standardized community, a "metropolized" town.
Where is that real Real* Devil, in, or out of London, — Jo. Parkes ? If he metropolizes, tell him he ought to come hither.
Because of its rapid and recent growth this newly metropolized area was particularly hard hit by the demise of ambulance services.
Nine days after this, under date of March 17, Lord Byron says, “We mean to metropolize to-morrow, and you will address your next to Piccadilly.”
Word Forms
- metropolizes
- metropolizing
- metropolized
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include metropolise, metropolitanize, metropolitanise, urbanize, urbanise, emmetropize.
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