metropolis
noun
me·trop·o·lis
mə-ˈträ-p(ə-)ləs 
1
: the chief or capital city of a country, state, or region
2
: the city or state of origin of a colony (as of ancient Greece)
3
a
: a city regarded as a center of a specified activity
an industrial metropolis
a cattle metropolis
b
: a large important city
one of Europe's great metropolises
Examples of metropolis in a Sentence
a big, teeming metropolis where ambitious people from all over come to make their mark
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Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
That is what they are being punished for—an effort to free themselves from the control of a former metropolis.
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Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
That is what they are being punished for—an effort to free themselves from the control of a former metropolis.
—Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 20 Feb. 2025
Sum of All Cities – An eight-part doc series that uses numbers to tell the story of metropolises such as Hyderabad, Las Vegas, Ulaanbaatar and Seoul.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 19 Feb. 2025
The makeshift metropolis constructed for the event sits on 10,000 acres of land temporarily claimed from the Ganges, whose waters recede at this time of year.
—Atul Loke, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2025
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metropolis
noun
me·trop·o·lis
mə-ˈträp-(ə-)ləs
1
: the chief or capital city of a country, state, or region
2
: a large important city
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