metropolis
Substantivin Dialogen belegt
- Vereinigtes Königreich//mɪˈtɹɒp.ə.lɪs//
- Vereinigte Staaten//məˈtɹɑp.ə.lɪs//
The mother (founding) polis (city state) of a colony.
Substantiv
- 1
The mother (founding) polis (city state) of a colony.
Colonies certainly did not become "clones" of their metropolises, but it is equally false that their colonial heritages were not influenced by the organization of the metropolises.
- 2
A large, busy city, especially as the main city in an area or country or as distinguished from surrounding rural areas.
Holonym: metropolitan area
An immense metropolis, like London, is calculated to make men selfish and uninteresting.
[I]t would not be very much less absurd for someone to write about New York City after having spent only a few years or a few decades in this metropolis of inexhaustible adventure, of terrifying emotional fecundity, of uncapturable character.
Love is dead in metropolis / All contact through glove or partition
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The see of a metropolitan bishop, ranking above its suffragan diocesan bishops.
- 4
A generic focus in the distribution of plants or animals.
Herkunft
Borrowed from Late Latin mētropolis, from Ancient Greek μητρόπολις (mētrópolis, “mother city”), from μήτηρ (mḗtēr, “mother”) + πόλις (pólis, “city (state)”). By surface analysis, metro- + -polis. Doublet of metropole.
Formen
- Plural
- metropolises, metropoleis, metropoles, metropolizes, metropoli, metropolisses
metropolis · The mother (founding) polis (city state) of a colony.
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