Metropolis
[mɪ'trɒp(ə)lɪs] or [mə'trɑpəlɪs]
Definition
(n.) The mother city; the chief city of a kingdom, state, or country.
(n.) The seat, or see, of the metropolitan, or highest church dignitary.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Chief city, capital.
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Definition
n. the capital of a country; the chief cathedral city as Canterbury of England: the mother-city of an ancient Greek colony: a generic focus in the distribution of plants or animals:—pl. Metrop′olises.—adj. Metropol′itan belonging to a metropolis: pertaining to the mother-church.—n. the bishop of a metropolis presiding over the other bishops of a province: an archbishop.—n. Metropol′itanate.—adjs. Metropol′itic -al.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A stronghold of provincialism.
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Examples
- The next day she proceeded to the Asylum, which was situated not far from London on the northern side of the metropolis. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- On the 26th day of October we arrived at the metropolis, called in their language _Lorbrulgrud_, or Pride of the Universe. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Such levity is proper enough in the provinces, we make no doubt, but it ill suits the dignity of the metropolis. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He remained in London a year and a half, working in two of the leading printing establishments of the metropolis, where his skill and reliability were soon prized. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- One day my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The Sanhedrim met here last, and for three hundred years Tiberias was the metropolis of the Jews in Palestine. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The metropolis, I imagine, is a pretty fair sample of the rest. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- We have to deal with all grades of life from the frontier to the metropolis, with men who differ in sense of fact, in ideal, in the very groundwork of morals. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But men saw that it was bound to grow, for railroads would have to come to bring the wheat and others to carry it away, and that meant that some day it would be a great metropolis. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- A description of the metropolis, and the country adjoining. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- He had traced the man to one of the most penurious streets in the metropolis. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- To a certain extent--with regard to populous districts, and in the metropolis, said the Doctor. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It seemed fitting that this cosmopolitan organization should be located in the world's metropolis rather than in a mere university town. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- They came from the east and the north, and directed their course without apparent motive, but unanimously towards our unhappy metropolis. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The king's palace; and some account of the metropolis. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
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