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n. A major city, especially the chief city of a country or region: Chicago, the metropolis of the Midwest.

n. A city or an urban area regarded as the center of a specific activity: a great cultural metropolis.

n. Ecclesiastical The chief see of a metropolitan bishop.

n. The mother city or country of an overseas colony, especially in ancient Greece.

n. The mother (founding) polis (city state) of a colony, especially in the Ancient Greek/Hellenistic world.

n. A large, busy city, especially as the main city in an area or country or as distinguished from surrounding rural areas.

n. The see of a metropolitan archbishop, ranking above its suffragan diocesan bishops.

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.

n. Any large city.

n. In ancient Greece, the mother city or parent state of a colony, as Corinth of Corcyra and Syracuse, or Phocæa of Massalia (Marseilles), the colony being independent, but usually maintaining close relations with the metropolis.

n. Later, a chief city; a seat of government; in the early church, the see or chief city of an ecclesiastical province.

n. In modern usage: Specifically, the see or seat of a metropolitan bishop.

n. The capital city or seat of government of a country, as London, Paris, or Washington

n. A chief city; a city holding the first rank in any respect, within a certain territorial range: as, New York is the commercial metropolis of the United States.

n. In zoögeog. and botany, the place of most numerous representation of a species by individuals, or of a genus by species; the focus of a generic area. See generic.

n. people living in a large densely populated municipality

n. a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts

"The term metropolis comes from two Greek words meter and polis, or "mother-city.""

municipality   

capital city   

city    center    metropole    mother city    archbishopric   

Acropolis    Heliopolis    Megalopolis    Papadopoulos    acropolis    megalopolis    necropolis   

empire    capital    fortress    republic    monastery    civilization    colony    seaport    frontier    mansion