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–noun, plural -lis·es.

1.	any large, busy city.

2.	the chief, and sometimes capital, city of a country, state, or region.

3.	a central or principal place, as of some activity: the music metropolis of France.

4.	the mother city or parent state of a colony, esp. of an ancient Greek colony.

5.	the chief see of an ecclesiastical province.

[Origin: 1350–1400; ME < LL métropolis < Gk métrópolis a mother state or city, equiv. to métro-, comb. form of mtér mother + pólis -polis, polis

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n.

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.

[Middle English metropol, from Late Latin mētropolis, mother-city, from Greek : mētēr, mētr-, mother; see māter- in Indo-European roots + polis, city; see pelə-³ in Indo-European roots.]

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
metropolis

"seat of a metropolitan bishop," 1535, see metropolitan. Meaning "chief town or capital city of a province" is first attested 1590.

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metropolis
noun
1.	a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts; "Ancient Troy was a great city" [syn: city]
2.	people living in a large densely populated municipality; "the city voted for Republicans in 1994" [syn: city]

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
metropolis [məˈtropəlis] noun

a large city, especially the chief city of a country
Example: London is England's metropolis.

Arabic:	المَدينَه الأم، المدينَه الكُبْرى
Chinese (Simplified):	大都会, 大城市
Chinese (Traditional):	大都會, 大城市
Czech:	metropole
Danish:	hovedstad
Dutch:	metropool
Estonian:	suurlinn
Finnish:	suurkaupunki, pääkaupunki
French:	métropole
German:	die Hauptstadt
Greek:	μητρόπολη
Hungarian:	főváros
Icelandic:	stórborg
Indonesian:	kota besar
Italian:	metropoli

Japanese:	大都市
Korean:	주요 도시, 대도시, 수도
Latvian:	metropole; galvaspilsēta
Lithuanian:	didžiausias miestas, sostinė, metropolis
Norwegian:	storby, verdensby; hovedstad
Polish:	metropolia
Portuguese (Brazil):	metrópole
Portuguese (Portugal):	metrópole
Romanian:	metropolă
Russian:	крупный город; столица
Slovak:	metropola
Slovenian:	prestolnica
Spanish:	metrópoli
Swedish:	metropol, huvudstad
Turkish:	büyük kent; başkent

See also: metropolitan

U.S. Gazetteer - Cite This Source - Share This

Metropolis, IL (city, FIPS 48645) Location: 37.15219 N, 88.71196 W
Population (1990): 6734 (3137 housing units)
Area: 12.7 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 62960

U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Metropolis

Met"ro*pole\, n. [Cf. F. m['e]tropole. See Metropolis.] A metropolis. [Obs.] --Holinshed.

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