metropolis

The definition of a metropolis is a large or main city.

(noun)

An example of a metropolis is Manhattan, New York.

See metropolis in Webster's New World College Dictionary

Origin: LL < Gr mētropolis < mētēr, mother + polis, a state, city: see police

See metropolis in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

A major city, especially the chief city of a country or region: Chicago, the metropolis of the Midwest.
A city or an urban area regarded as the center of a specific activity: a great cultural metropolis.
Ecclesiastical The chief see of a metropolitan bishop.
The mother city or country of an overseas colony, especially in ancient Greece.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English metropol

Origin: , from Late Latin mētropolis, mother-city

Origin: , from Greek

Origin: : mētēr, mētr-, mother; see māter- in Indo-European roots

Origin: + polis, city; see pelə-³ in Indo-European roots

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