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Another word for metropolis

Noun

  1. A large and important town

    2. See also:

    urban

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Another word for metropolis

Noun
    2. See also:

    city

    center

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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 metropolis of the Ammonites (Deut.

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