metropole
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French metropole (“town with bishop's seat”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin mētropolis.
Pronunciation
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- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 307: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "US" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈmɛtɹəpoʊl/
Noun
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
city — see metropolis
parent state
See also
Latin
Noun
(deprecated template usage) mētropole