What is the definition of
metropolis
1.
[ noun ]
(government) a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts
Synonyms:
city
urban_center
Examples:
"Ancient Troy was a great city"
Related terms:
municipality
New_York
Chicago
Dallas
Kansas_City
Los_Angeles
Manchester
San_Francisco
Philadelphia
St._Louis
Detroit
gateway_to_the_west
Baltimore
Houston
Pittsburgh
Cleveland
Savannah
Newport
Memphis
Montreal
Fort_Worth
New_Orleans
Cincinnati
Seattle
Minneapolis
Milwaukee
Tel_Aviv
Liverpool
Bombay
Palermo
Birmingham
Acapulco
Firenze
Bonn
Manchester
Venice
Oxford
Munich
Las_Vegas
Newcastle
New_Haven
Odessa
Birmingham
St._Petersburg
Merida
Cancun
Antofagasta
Veracruz
Ciudad_Juarez
Punta_Arenas
national_capital
Oaxaca
Orizaba
Valparaiso
Jaffa
Guadalajara
Lanzhou
provincial_capital
Dunkirk
Aquila
Naples
Tijuana
Corinth
Argos
Delphi
Mycenae
Sparta
Troy
Thebes
Thessalonika
Sodom
Gomorrah
Nineveh
Haifa
Kyoto
Byzantium
Pompeii
Herculaneum
Messina
Bologna
San_Juan
Shanghai
Genoa
Milan
Bergen
Pisa
Syracuse
Trondheim
Canton
state_capital
Turin
Bari
Malmo
Tangier
Lagos
Lund
Shenyang
Padua
Gdansk
Goteborg
Verona
Dubrovnik
Dresden
Tianjin
Oran
Ufa
Volgograd
Banff
Calgary
Leipzig
Vancouver
Saint_John
Weimar
Nanking
Rostov
Hamilton
Saskatoon
Antwerp
Cologne
Chungking
Hamilton
Bruges
Natal
Braunschweig
Rio_de_Janeiro
Recife
Swansea
Alexandria
Aswan
Giza
Memphis
Luxor
Delhi
Calcutta
Dusseldorf
Madras
Salem
Bandung
Mashhad
Shiraz
Tabriz
Qum
Persepolis
Edirne
Babylon
Assur
Xian
Utica
Naha_City
Osaka
Sao_Paulo
Hiroshima
Sapporo
Kitakyushu
Fukuoka
Nagasaki
Aqaba
Mombasa
Bordeaux
Cannes
Nice
Orleans
Versailles
Marseilles
Lyon
The_Hague
Nijmegen
Rotterdam
Leiden
Utrecht
Thorshavn
Taegu
Pusan
Tripoli
Benghazi
Zomba
Timbuktu
Casablanca
Lancaster
Aukland
Essen
Karachi
Cebu
Cracow
Hull
Lodz
Wroclaw
Papeete
Mecca
Hargeisa
Cape_Town
Johannesburg
Bloemfontein
Soweto
Gorki
Kazan
St._Petersburg
Perm
Frankfurt_on_the_Main
Luoyang
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2.
[ noun ]
people living in a large densely populated municipality
Synonyms:
city
Examples:
"the city voted for Republicans in 1994"
Related terms:
municipality
citify
Similar spelling:
metropolitan
metroptosis