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noun
1.
a very large city.
2.
an urban region, especially one consisting of several large cities and suburbs that adjoin each other.
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Megalopolis
has a plethora of syllables.
So is floccinaucinihilipilification. Does it mean:
| the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language). |
| (used as a nonsense word by children to express approval or to represent the longest word in English.) |
Example Sentences
- After coursing through traffic for nearly an hour, you arrive at the edge of the megalopolis.
- It has created the global village, but it has the anonymity of the megalopolis.
- When two or more metropolitan areas grow until they combine, the result may be known as a megalopolis.
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megalopolis [(meg-uh-lop-uh-lis)]A vast stretch of developed industrial urban area, such as the East Coast of the United States from Boston to Washington, D.C., or the Ruhr Valley in Germany. Megalopolis is from Greek words meaning “great city.”
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