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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, especially of an ancient Greek colony.
5.
the chief see of an ecclesiastical province.
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metropolis
"seat of a metropolitan bishop," 1530s, see metropolitan. Meaning "chief town or capital city of a province" is first attested 1580s.
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