METROPOLIS
\mətɹˈɒpəlˌɪs], \mətɹˈɒpəlˌɪs], \m_ə_t_ɹ_ˈɒ_p_ə_l_ˌɪ_s]\
Definitions of METROPOLIS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1910 - Black's Law Dictionary (2nd edition)
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
- 1895 - Glossary of terms and phrases
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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people living in a large densely populated municipality; "the city voted for Republicans in 1994"
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a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts; "Ancient Troy was a great city"
By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The mother city; the chief city of a kingdom, state, or country.
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The seat, or see, of the metropolitan, or highest church dignitary.
By Oddity Software
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The mother city; the chief city of a kingdom, state, or country.
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The seat, or see, of the metropolitan, or highest church dignitary.
By Noah Webster.
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The chief city or capital of a kingdom, country, or state; as, New York City is the metropolis of the United States; a principal center; as, London is the metropolis of the world.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The chief city or capital of a country: (properly) the chief cathedral city, as Canterbury of England:-pl. METROPOLISES.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Henry Campbell Black
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me-trop'o-lis, n. the capital of a country; the chief cathedral city, as Canterbury of England: the mother-city of an ancient Greek colony: a generic focus in the distribution of plants or animals:--pl. METROP'OLISES.--adj. METROPOL'ITAN, belonging to a metropolis: pertaining to the mother-church.--n. the bishop of a metropolis, presiding over the other bishops of a province: an archbishop.--n. METROPOL'ITANATE.--adjs. METROPOL'ITIC, -AL. [L.,--Gr. m[=e]t[=e]r, mother, polis, a city.]
By Thomas Davidson
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Chief city of a country, capital; the m., London; metropolitan bishop\'s see; centre of activity. [Latin]
By Sir Augustus Henry
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[Gr.] In modern and less correct usage, the chief city or capital of an independent state.
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[Gr.] Originally the parent state from which a colony has sprung.
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[Gr.] The city in which the archiepiscopal see of a province is established. Thus Canterbury is the metropolis of England.
By Henry Percy Smith
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