Very large and significant city or urban area usually with millions of inhabitants.
A large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts.
Diocese headed by an archbishop and having suffragan dioceses under its jurisdiction.
1 Five weeks in the great metropolis had worked wonders in the boy.
2 Today, Wenling is a typical medium-sized metropolis in Zhejiang province, southern China.
3 Then came Richmond; the metropolis of the world, to the young voyager.
4 It gave him a new picture of the metropolis , he told us.
5 In the metropolis , an extraordinary assembly of the national union took place.
6 The artificial fountains of the metropolis are, in like manner, fast vanishing.
7 I am at Paris-andnot in the metropolis of our own country.
8 Once Babylon became the metropolis it retained its pre-eminence until the end.
9 He was at home in Budapest among the writers of the metropolis .
10 I was helpless as a teenager coming of age in that metropolis .
11 One day, the imagined metropolis may even become a publicly traded company.
12 He was in a city whose size made it a true metropolis .
13 We have all the advantages of a great metropolis without the drawbacks.
14 Indeed, my cousin had apparently grown suddenly famous in the American metropolis .
15 And thus Athens became, as it were, the metropolis of the allies.
16 The great commercial metropolis had celebrated the occasion by a magnificent banquet.
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Metropolis в диалектах
Соединенные Штаты Америки