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Another word for metropolis

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metropolis

n.

capital, megalopolis, conurbation, municipality; see center 2, city.

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Another word for metropolis

noun

A large and important town:

city, municipality. (Informal) burg, town. See urban

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

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