Meaning of metropolitanism | Babel Free

Definitions

The quality or state of being metropolitan.

uncountable, usually

Examples

“She stayed at two or three places a day for at least one meal--hotels in tiny towns she had never heard of, and in larger towns that were fumbling for metropolitanism.”

“Bennietod was Bowery-born and office-bred, and this sad metropolitanism almost made of him a good philosopher.”

“But in the form⟳ of its expression it exemplified that illusion of metropolitanism which is to my mind⟳ the veriest cockneyism in disguise, and which cannot but strike⟳ Americans as either ridiculous or offensive.”

“NOTE⟳.—The Bytown mentioned in the foregoing chapter is now called Ottawa, and is a candidate, in conjunction with Montreal and Toronto, for the honour of permanent metropolitanism.”

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