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metropolis

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"Large city"

10 letters · collected on this word page

10 lettersPronunciation /mɪˈtɹɒp.ə.lɪs/Part of speech nounSorted eilmooprstStarts with MEnds with S2 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. people living in a large densely populated municipality

Word origin

Borrowed from Late Latin mētropolis, from Ancient Greek μητρόπολις (mētrópolis, “mother city”), from μήτηρ (mḗtēr, “mother”) + πόλις (pólis, “city (state)”). By surface analysis, metro- + -polis. Doublet of metropole.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.

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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Large city10 letters
02Big city10 letters

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