metropole

See also: métropole, metrópole, and Metropole

English

Etymology

From Middle English metropol, from Middle French metropole (“town with bishop's seat”), from Latin mētropolis. Doublet of metropolis.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛtɹəpəʊl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛtɹəpoʊl/

Noun

metropole (plural metropoles)

1. A metropolis; the main city of a country or area. [from 15th c.]
2. The parent-state of a colony. [from 19th c.]
   • 2007, Bruce Ackerman, “Meritocracy v. Democracy”, in 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, published 2008, page 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.

3. (now rare) A bishop's see. [from 19th c.]

Translations

city — see metropolis

parent state

• Finnish: emämaa (fi)
• French: métropole (fr) f
• Hungarian: anyaország (hu)

See also

• metropolis

Latin

Noun

mētropole

1. ablative singular of mētropolis

Latvian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μητρόπολις (mētrópolis, “mother city”), from μήτηρ (mḗtēr, “mother”) + πόλις (pólis, “city (state)”).

Noun

metropole f (5th declension)

1. (historical) metropolis (the mother city or country of a colony)
2. metropolis (major city)

   Synonym: lielpilsēta

Declension

Declension of metropole (5th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	metropole	metropoles
accusative (akuzatīvs)	metropoli	metropoles
genitive (ģenitīvs)	metropoles	metropoļu
dative (datīvs)	metropolei	metropolēm
instrumental (instrumentālis)	metropoli	metropolēm
locative (lokatīvs)	metropolē	metropolēs
vocative (vokatīvs)	metropole	metropoles