Metropolis Synonyms

mĭ-trŏpə-lĭs
A large and important town
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. city
  2. municipality
  3. burg
  4. town
People living in a large densely populated municipality
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. city
  2. megalopolis
  3. capital
  4. conurbation
  5. municipality
  6. urban center
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Words Related to Metropolis

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. center
  2. urban
  3. suburb
  4. cityscape

Metropolis Sentence Examples

  • In the 4th century it became the metropolis of Narbonensis Secunda.

  • The destruction of Jerusalem might be regarded as an event of merely domestic importance; for the Roman cosmopolitan it was only the removal of the titular metropolis of a national and an Oriental religion.

  • At this period the metropolis of Byzacena was after Carthage the most important town in Roman Africa.

  • The mean annual rainfall ranges in different parts of the metropolis from about 202 to 272 in.

  • The city of Babylon came to the fore as metropolis about 2285 B.C. under Khammurabi.

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