metropolis

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The facilities for a metropolis should be adequate--a rich, fertile, and productive country surrounding it, with some great staple (which the world requires as a commodity) of exportation.

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  1. noun A major city, especially the chief city of a country or region: Chicago, the metropolis of the Midwest.
  2. noun A city or an urban area regarded as the center of a specific activity: a great cultural metropolis.
  3. noun Ecclesiastical The chief see of a metropolitan bishop.
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  • Since he had been gone from London only a week, it was unlikely that the metropolis was any more crowded and noisome than when Reggie had left. —  Mary Jo Putney - The Rake.htm
  • All the most distinguished men of the metropolis were there. —  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Apr. 5 -- Towering skyscrapers set the scene for Cirque du Soleil's "Saltimbanco" -- except these high-rise "buildings" are actually 24-foot Chinese poles and the hustle and bustle of the metropolis is actually multi-colored beings leaping from pole to pole. —  California Chronicle
  • REG HARTT is what living in a metropolis is all about. —  blogTO
  • Among the most prominent natural features of our metropolis is the Los Angeles River, a diverse urban tributary that inspired the City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works, Office of Community Beautification, to commission renowned Los Angeles artist Yuriko Etue for a special project at Aragon Avenue Elementary in Cypress Park. —  LAFD News & Information
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  1. Middle English metropol, from Late Latin mētropolis, mother-city, from Greek : mētēr, mētr-, mother; see māter- in Indo-European roots + polis, city; see pelə-3 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French métropole = Spanish metrópoli = Portuguese Italian metropoli, from Late Latin metropolis, from Greek μητρόπολις, a mother state or city (a state or city in relation to its colonies), also a capital city, from μήτηρ, = English mother, + πόλις, state, city: see police.
 

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