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metropolis in British English
nounWord forms: plural -lises
1.
the main city, esp of a country or region; capital
2.
a centre of activity
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Word origin
C16: from Late Latin from Greek: mother city or state, from mētēr mother + polis city COBUILD frequency band
metropolis in American English
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metropolis in American English
(mɪˈtrɑpəlɪs)
nounWord forms: plural -lises
1.
any large, busy city
2.
the chief, and sometimes capital, city of a country, state, or region
5.
the chief see of an ecclesiastical province
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Word origin
[1350–1400; ME ‹ LL mētropolis ‹ Gk mētrópolis a mother state or city, equiv. to mētro-, comb. form of me᷄tēr mother + pólis -polis, polis]Examples of 'metropolis' in a sentence metropolis
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British English: metropolis
NOUN /məˈtrɒpəlɪs/
A metropolis is the largest, busiest, and most important city in a country or region.
...the bustling metropolis.
