单词 | million city |
释义 | > as lemmasmillion city million city n. chiefly Geography a city with a million or more inhabitants; also (esp. in earlier, more general use) with prefixed multiplier. ΚΠ 1855 tr. P. Schaff America Pref. p. xii The two-million city of the Anglo-Saxons. 1893 Littell's Living Age 11 Feb. 447/1 The only noble open-air work of native art in the four-million city. 1940 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 103 51 Outside London, probably the only ‘million city’ that has grown relatively has been Birmingham. 1997 S. Mayhew Oxf. Dict. Geogr. (ed. 2) 282 In the 1990s there were more than 250 million cities, more or less evenly divided between the more developed and less developed worlds. < as lemmas |
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