[mi-trop-uh-lis] 
| 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. |
| me·trop·o·lis (mĭ-trŏp'ə-lĭs) n.
[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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