metropole
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Middle French metropole (“town with bishop's seat”), from Latin mētropolis.
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
metropole (plural metropoles)
- A metropolis; the main city of a country or area. [from 15th c.]
- The parent-state of a colony. [from 19th c.]
- 2007, Bruce Ackerman, ‘Meritocracy v. Democracy’, London Review of Books 29:5, p. 9:
- Though the metropole remained confident in its Westminster ways, its newly independent colonies imposed constitutional constraints on the powers of parliament.
- 2007, John Darwin, After Tamerlane, Penguin 2008, p. 63:
- As Europe's population growth and commercial activity slowed down after 1620, its thirst for Spanish-American silver slackened: metropole and colony were drifting apart.
- 2007, Bruce Ackerman, ‘Meritocracy v. Democracy’, London Review of Books 29:5, p. 9:
- (now rare) A bishop's see. [from 19th c.]
Translations [edit]
city — see metropolis
See also [edit]
Latin [edit]
Noun [edit]
mētropole
- ablative singular of mētropolis
