Definition of metropolis
1 : the chief or capital city of a country, state, or region
2 : the city or state of origin of a colony (as of ancient Greece)
3a : a city regarded as a center of a specified activity an industrial metropolis a cattle metropolisb : a large important city one of Europe's great metropolises
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a big, teeming metropolis where ambitious people from all over come to make their mark
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Even other Rust Belt metropolises did markedly better: In metro Cleveland, employment also fell, but only by 3.8 percent.
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Mosul is Iraq's biggest metropolis outside Baghdad, and gaining control of the city was one of ISIS' most significant strategic wins.
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Metropolis calls itself the World Association of the Major Metropolises, a global network of major cities and metropolitan areas.
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A stay at the Hotel Mono is where the Singapore of today meets the metropolis of years past.
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Enjoy with a warming cup of Dollop coffee, made from beans from local roaster Metropolis.
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Well, even though Portland is the whitest metropolis in America with a black population of less than 3 percent, the PPB’s gang database is 64 percent black, and only 8% white.
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While Trump Hotels’ existing properties are in such major metropolises as New York, Washington and Chicago, the first three American Idea hotels will be in Mississippi, Donald Trump Jr. said in an interview at the event.
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For with that land — the urban villages of East Jerusalem, the sprawling hills and metropolises of the West Bank, the concrete density of the Gaza Strip — came people: Palestinians now numbering more than 4.5 million.
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: a very large or important city
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1 : the chief or capital city of a country, state, or region
2 : a large or important city
Word Root of metropolis
The Greek word polis, meaning “city” or “community,” and the related word polītēs, meaning “citizen,” give us the roots polis and polit. Words from Greek polis and polītēs have something to do with cities or communities or the citizens who live in them. A metropolis is the most important city in an area. The police are a group that enforces the law so as to protect citizens. Politics is the science and art of governing citizens.
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