megalopolis

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Now the city of New York -- the megalopolis is going to exist from Seattle to San Diego in a few years-could just as well be underground.

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  1. noun A very large city.
  2. noun A region made up of several large cities and their surrounding areas in sufficient proximity to be considered a single urban complex.

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  • Quito might be transformed into a super-megalopolis larger than Shanghai. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#214
  • Now the city of New York -- the megalopolis is going to exist from Seattle to San Diego in a few years-could just as well be underground. —  Information Liberation
  • Tokyo!, three visionary directors (Michel Gondry, Leos Carax and Bong Joon-ho) come together for an omnibus triptych examining the nature of one unforgettable city as it's shaped by the disparate people who live, work (and run amok) inside an enormous, constantly evolving, densely populated Japanese megalopolis -- the enchanting and inimitable Tokyo.
  • In TOKYO!, three visionary directors come together for an omnibus triptych examining the nature of one unforgettable city as it's shaped by the disparate people who live, work (and run amok) inside an enormous, constantly evolving, densely populated Japanese megalopolis - the ravishing and inimitable Tokyo. —  Latest Movie Trailers
  • "We have also accepted the belief that the idea of the modern is determined by the megalopolis, even when smaller Midwest cities and suburban and rural sites are covered by Sullivan, Mies van der Rohe, Wright and Buckminster Fuller." —  pjstar.com Home RSS
 

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  1. megalo- + Greek polis, city; see pelə-3 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Greek μεγαλόπολις, a great city, metropolis (also the name of several cities), from μέγας (μεγαλ-), great, large, + πόλις, city: see police.
 

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