metropolis
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
First attested in Middle English: from Late Latin mētropolis, from Ancient Greek μητρόπολις (mētrópolis, “mother city”), from μήτηρ (mḗtēr, “mother”) + πόλις (pólis, “city (state)”).[1]
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Noun [edit]
metropolis (plural metropolises or metropoleis)
- (history) The mother (founding) polis (city state) of a colony, especially in the Ancient Greek/Hellenistic world.
- A large, busy city, especially as the main city in an area or country or as distinguished from surrounding rural areas.
- 1819, Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, Rural Life in England:
- An immense metropolis, like London, is calculated to make men selfish and uninteresting.
- 1819, Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, Rural Life in England:
- (canon law) The see of a metropolitan archbishop, ranking above its suffragan diocesan bishops.
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Derived terms
Synonyms [edit]
- (colony’s founding polis): mother city, metropole
- (metropolitan archbishop’s see): archbishopric
Translations [edit]
colony’s mother city
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large, busy city
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metropolitan archbishop — see archbishopric
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Dutch [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Latin mētropolis, from Ancient Greek μητρόπολις (mētrópolis, “mother city”).
Noun [edit]
metropolis f (plural metropolissen, diminutive metropolisje)
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Latin [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Late Latin, from Ancient Greek μητρόπολις (mētrópolis, “a city or mother state”), from μητρο- (mētro-, “mother-”) + πόλις (pólis, “city”).
Noun [edit]
mētropolis (genitive mētropolis); m, third declension
Inflection [edit]
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Serbo-Croatian [edit]
Noun [edit]
metròpolis m (Cyrillic spelling метро̀полис)
Declension [edit]
declension of metropolis
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | metropolis | metropolisi |
| genitive | metropolisa | metropolisa |
| dative | metropolisu | metropolisima |
| accusative | metropolis | metropolise |
| vocative | metropolise | metropolisi |
| locative | metropolisu | metropolisima |
| instrumental | metropolisom | metropolisima |
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- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Late Latin
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
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- Dutch terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Dutch nouns
- Latin terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Latin nouns
- Serbo-Croatian nouns
- Serbo-Croatian masculine nouns
