Other forms: metropolises
A metropolis is a giant important city, millions strong. A great metropolis, the bustling metropolis, escape the metropolis.
The Greek means mother city, and it first named the home city that founded a colony — the daughter cities kept its gods and its calendar. The modern sense is simply size and importance. Metropolitan comes from the same word and covers the whole surrounding area.
1nounmetropolisA giant important city.
“The small fishing village has grown into a busy metropolis of skyscrapers and highways.”
metropolis is a city.
Greek metropolis means mother city, from meter, mother, plus polis, a city. It named the founding city of a colony.
Ancient Greek
μητρόπολις — mother city
Latin
mētropolis
English, today
metropolis
Built from
Latin mētropolis, from Ancient Greek μητρόπολις (“mother city”), from μήτηρ (“mother”) + πόλις (“city (state)”). by surface analysis, metro- + -polis. a doublet of metropole.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in In the City