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   metropolis

   /mɪˈtrɒpəlɪs/

   noun

   • 1. the capital or chief city of a country or region: "he preferred the peaceful life of the countryside to the bustle of the metropolis" Similar capital (city)chief townstate/regional/provincial capitalcounty towncounty boroughadministrative centre
   • ▪ a very large and busy city: "by the late eighteenth century Edo had grown to a metropolis with a population of nearly one million" Similar big cityconurbationmegalopolisurban sprawlconcrete jungleinformal:big smokearchaic:wen

   Word Origin late Middle English (denoting the see of a metropolitan bishop): via late Latin from Greek mētropolis ‘mother state’, from mētēr, mētr- ‘mother’ + polis ‘city’.

   Scrabble Points: 14

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