Meaning of Metropolis | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A city, the county seat of Massac County, Illinois, United States.
2. Nickname for London: the capital city of the United Kingdom; the capital city of England, within Greater London.
   England, dated
3. The mother (founding) polis (city state) of a colony.
4. A large, busy city, especially as the main city in an area or country or as distinguished from surrounding rural areas.
5. A ghost town in Elko County, Nevada, United States.
6. The see of a metropolitan bishop, ranking above its suffragan diocesan bishops.
7. A classical city site in Anatolia (Turkey).
8. A generic focus in the distribution of plants or animals.
9. A fictional city serving as the primary setting for the Superman franchise, published by DC Comics.
10. Nickname for New York City: a major city in New York, United States.

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Examples

“Colonies certainly did not become "clones" of their metropolises, but it is equally false that their colonial heritages were not influenced by the organization of the metropolises.”

“Holonym: metropolitan area”

“An immense metropolis, like London, is calculated to make men selfish and uninteresting.”

“[I]t would not be very much less absurd for someone to write about New York City after having spent only a few years or a few decades in this metropolis of inexhaustible adventure, of terrifying emotional fecundity, of uncapturable character.”

“Love is dead in metropolis / All contact through glove or partition”

“They call me the Hiphopopotamus / Flows that glow like phosphorous / Popping off the top of this esophagus / Rocking this metropolis”

“My city need a hero, so I treat it like Metropolis / And it's a few bad Lois Lanes I can't name”

“The journey from our town to the metropolis, was a journey of about five hours.”

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