Synonyms for metropolis

Grammar : Noun

Spell : mi-trop-uh-lis

Phonetic Transcription : mɪˈtrɒp ə lɪs

Définition of metropolis

Origin : "seat of a metropolitan bishop," 1530s, from Late Latin metropolis; see metropolitan. Meaning "chief town or capital city of a province" is first attested 1580s, earlier metropol (late 14c.).

noun major city

Example sentences :

I'll be city-sick the first thing I know, and then I'll make a break for the metropolis.
Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr

I was now known by name at every public place in and near the metropolis.
Extract from : « Beaux and Belles of England » by Mary Robinson

This Maori town may be considered the metropolis of the Ngatewhatua tribe.
Extract from : « Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) » by William Delisle Hay

You and Beatrix will soon be great moral forces in the metropolis.
Extract from : « The Dominant Strain » by Anna Chapin Ray

From here the first pair of omnibuses in the Metropolis were started on July 4, 1829.
Extract from : « Hampstead and Marylebone » by Geraldine Edith Mitton

In no other State is the metropolis so much the center of its life as is Denver of Colorado.
Extract from : « The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV » by Various

Did he leap at night from any of the bridges of the metropolis?
Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 » by Various

On the wall beside his desk hung a tinted map of the metropolis.
Extract from : « The Crimson Tide » by Robert W. Chambers

Nowhere at any time has there been a metropolis that so stank to heaven.
Extract from : « The Paliser case » by Edgar Saltus

Robinson also brought men from Metropolis, Illinois, and from Kankakee.
Extract from : « Negro Migration during the War » by Emmett J. Scott

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