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METROPOLIS
city, metropolis
(noun) people living in a large densely populated municipality; “the city voted for Republicans in 1994”
city, metropolis, urban center
(noun) a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts; “Ancient Troy was a great city”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
metropolis (plural metropolises or metropoleis or metropolizes)
(history) The mother (founding) polis (city state) of a colony, especially in the Hellenistic world.
The mother country of a colony.
A large, busy city, especially as the main city in an area or country or as distinguished from surrounding rural areas.
(canon law) The see of a metropolitan archbishop, ranking above its suffragan diocesan bishops.
(ecology) A generic focus in the distribution of plants or animals.
Synonyms
• (colony’s founding polis): mother city, metropole
• (metropolitan archbishop’s see): archbishopric
Anagrams
• simple root
Etymology
Proper noun
Metropolis
A city, the county seat of Massac County, Illinois, United States.
A ghost town in Elko County, Nevada, United States.
a classical city site in Anatolia (Turkey).
Anagrams
• simple root
Source: Wiktionary
Me*trop"o*lis, n. Etym: [L. metropolis, Gr. Mother, and Police.]
1. The mother city; the chief city of a kingdom, state, or country. [Edinburgh] gray metropolis of the North. Tennyson.
2. (Eccl.)
Definition: The seat, or see, of the metropolitan, or highest church dignitary. The great metropolis and see of Rome. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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