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me·trop·o·lis
\mə̇.ˈträp(ə)lə̇s, meˈ-\ noun
(-es)
Etymology: Late Latin, mother city, from Greek mētropolis, from mētr-, mētēr mother + -o- + polis city — more at mother, police
1. : a metropolitan see
2. : the mother city or state of a colony (as of ancient Greece) : mother country
3.
a. : the chief town or city of a country or other land area : capital
< the metropolis of the valley >
b. : a city regarded as the center of a particular activity
< a lumber metropolis >
< a cattle metropolis >
c. : city; especially : an important city
< the world's great metropolises — P.E.James >
< the boom spirit which saw in every village a future metropolis — G.R.Stewart >
4. : a region where a particular kind of organism (as a variety or species) is most abundant |