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Definition of megalopolis in English: megalopolisnoun ˌmɛɡəˈlɒp(ə)lɪsˌmɛɡəˈlɑpələs A very large, heavily populated city or urban complex. a dizzying megalopolis ablaze with neon Example sentencesExamples - For me growing up in the border regions of the United States, the San Diego / Tijuana general megalopolis, code-switching and speaking in two languages is something that millions of people do.
- Needless to say that it was not quite easy for a young and unknown artist in a megalopolis like Paris.
- Dhaka, founded by the Mughals in 1608, is the sprawling capital city and is fast turning into a megalopolis of over nine million people.
- High-end properties in the Chinese megalopolis have shot up 20% during the past three months alone.
- Business travelers vie to escape the megalopolis on weekends, leaving behind the pollution, traffic, street crime, and crush of its 16 million inhabitants.
- Satellite photos illustrate the same reality: the entire stretch of coast from Abidjan eastward to Lagos in Nigeria is one burgeoning megalopolis.
- But the Los Angeles of 2000 is much more: the megalopolis of California, which itself has emerged since 1960 as by far the nation's most populous state.
- These megalopolises have swelled with 100 million new residents since the mid-1970s.
- The recent efforts of cities to strengthen their competitive position as hubs of the megalopolis are paying off.
- Pointedly punctuating the film are aerial shots of the megalopolis rendered abstract by its immense repetitiveness.
- Seoul today is a megalopolis of more than 10 million.
- In fact, the city is more of an international megalopolis along the lines of New York, than the mere capital of England.
- The Harrisons argue that these strips of green would contribute to natural purification of air and water, while warding off a future in which central Holland is transformed, largely thanks to suburbanization, into a megalopolis.
- Anyone wishing to understand Japan must sooner or later come to grips with the astounding megalopolis that is modern Tokyo.
- The downside of this influx to the great megalopolis was the rise of the urban slum.
- By the 1960s, urban sprawl had created enormous megalopolises.
- The action is set in a suburb outside East London when the city has grown into a megalopolis of 30 miles in radius.
- Due to the constant earthquakes, this megalopolis does not and cannot have a good public transportation system in the form of subways to diffuse the load on its roads.
- This sprawling megalopolis of more than twenty million continues to increase in size and population every year.
- It is easy to construct parking bays out of perforated, prefabricated paving elements filled with grass, so that the entire parking network throughout a megalopolis could be transformed into a landscape.
Synonyms urban area, conurbation, municipality, borough, township, settlement
Origin Mid 19th century: from megalo- 'great' + Greek polis 'city'. Rhymes acropolis, cosmopolis, Heliopolis, metropolis, necropolis Definition of megalopolis in US English: megalopolisnounˌmeɡəˈläpələsˌmɛɡəˈlɑpələs A very large, heavily populated city or urban complex. a dizzying megalopolis ablaze with neon Example sentencesExamples - Needless to say that it was not quite easy for a young and unknown artist in a megalopolis like Paris.
- Business travelers vie to escape the megalopolis on weekends, leaving behind the pollution, traffic, street crime, and crush of its 16 million inhabitants.
- In fact, the city is more of an international megalopolis along the lines of New York, than the mere capital of England.
- These megalopolises have swelled with 100 million new residents since the mid-1970s.
- But the Los Angeles of 2000 is much more: the megalopolis of California, which itself has emerged since 1960 as by far the nation's most populous state.
- The Harrisons argue that these strips of green would contribute to natural purification of air and water, while warding off a future in which central Holland is transformed, largely thanks to suburbanization, into a megalopolis.
- High-end properties in the Chinese megalopolis have shot up 20% during the past three months alone.
- Satellite photos illustrate the same reality: the entire stretch of coast from Abidjan eastward to Lagos in Nigeria is one burgeoning megalopolis.
- For me growing up in the border regions of the United States, the San Diego / Tijuana general megalopolis, code-switching and speaking in two languages is something that millions of people do.
- Dhaka, founded by the Mughals in 1608, is the sprawling capital city and is fast turning into a megalopolis of over nine million people.
- By the 1960s, urban sprawl had created enormous megalopolises.
- Seoul today is a megalopolis of more than 10 million.
- The downside of this influx to the great megalopolis was the rise of the urban slum.
- Anyone wishing to understand Japan must sooner or later come to grips with the astounding megalopolis that is modern Tokyo.
- This sprawling megalopolis of more than twenty million continues to increase in size and population every year.
- Due to the constant earthquakes, this megalopolis does not and cannot have a good public transportation system in the form of subways to diffuse the load on its roads.
- It is easy to construct parking bays out of perforated, prefabricated paving elements filled with grass, so that the entire parking network throughout a megalopolis could be transformed into a landscape.
- The action is set in a suburb outside East London when the city has grown into a megalopolis of 30 miles in radius.
- The recent efforts of cities to strengthen their competitive position as hubs of the megalopolis are paying off.
- Pointedly punctuating the film are aerial shots of the megalopolis rendered abstract by its immense repetitiveness.
Synonyms urban area, conurbation, municipality, borough, township, settlement
Origin Mid 19th century: from megalo- ‘great’ + Greek polis ‘city’. |