Metropolis

  • 31Metropolis VI — Este artículo está huérfano, pues pocos o ningún artículo enlazan aquí. Por favor, introduce enlaces hacia esta página desde otros artículos relacionados …

    Wikipedia Español

  • 32metrópolis — metrópoli o metrópolis (plural metrópolis) sustantivo femenino 1. Ciudad importante que ocupa una extensión muy grande de terreno: Las metrópolis modernas tienen ventajas, pero son muy incómodas para vivir. 2. Estado o ciudad respecto de sus… …

    Diccionario Salamanca de la Lengua Española

  • 33metropolis — /mi trop euh lis/, n., pl. metropolises. 1. any large, busy city. 2. the chief, and sometimes capital, city of a country, state, or region. 3. a central or principal place, as of some activity: the music metropolis of France. 4. the mother city… …

    Universalium

  • 34metropolis — [16] A metropolis is etymologically a ‘mother city’. The word comes via late Latin mētropolis from Greek mētrópolis, a compound formed from métēr ‘mother’ (a distant relative of English mother) and pólis ‘city’ (source of English police, policy,… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 35metropolis — me•trop•o•lis [[t]mɪˈtrɒp ə lɪs[/t]] n. pl. lis•es 1) any large, busy city, esp. the chief city of a country or region 2) a central place of some activity: a trading metropolis[/ex] 3) anh the mother city or parent state of a colony, esp. of an… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 36metropolis — [16] A metropolis is etymologically a ‘mother city’. The word comes via late Latin mētropolis from Greek mētrópolis, a compound formed from métēr ‘mother’ (a distant relative of English mother) and pólis ‘city’ (source of English police, policy,… …

    Word origins

  • 37metropolis — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin, from Greek mētropolis, from mētr , mētēr mother + polis city more at mother, police Date: 14th century 1. the chief or capital city of a country, state, or region 2. the city or state of origin of… …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 38metropolis — [[t]mətrɒ̱pəlɪs[/t]] metropolises N COUNT: usu sing A metropolis is the largest, busiest, and most important city in a country or region. Even Lhasa was a small provincial town compared to the bustling metropolis of Chengdu …

    English dictionary

  • 39Metropolis — Sp Metròpolis Ap Metropolis L JAV Masako apyg. c. (Ilinojus) …

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  • 40metropolis — UK [məˈtrɒpəlɪs] / US [məˈtrɑpəlɪs] noun [countable] Word forms metropolis : singular metropolis plural metropolises mainly literary a big city, especially considered as somewhere that is very busy and exciting …

    English dictionary