megalopolis
/ˌmɛɡəˈlɒp(ə)lɪs
/noun
A very large, heavily populated city or urban complex: a dizzying megalopolis ablaze with neon...
- 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.
- 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.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from megalo- 'great' + Greek polis 'city'.
Rhymes
- uncommunicated
- uncommunicative
- uncommunicatively
- uncommunicativeness
- uncompacted
- uncompanionable
- uncompassionate
- uncompensated
- uncompetitive
- uncompetitively
- uncompetitiveness
- uncomplaining
- uncomplainingly
- uncompleted
- uncomplexed
- uncomplicated
- uncomplicatedly
- uncomplicatedness
- uncomplimentary
- uncompounded
- uncomprehending
- uncomprehendingly
- uncomprehension
- uncompressed
- uncompromising