Synonyms for metropolis
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Noun
1. Mother city — the mother (founding) polis (city state) of a colony
Definitions
- n. 1
The mother (founding) polis (city state) of a colony.
Related words
- Word family
- metro metropole metropolitan
Forms
- Plural
- metropolises → cities, towns, metropoles, capitals…
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The metropolis is the chief city in the commercial, the capital in the political sense. The capital of an American State is rarely its metropolis.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- capital All countries have their embassies in the capital.
- archbishopric Montaigne was raised to the Archbishopric of York.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| metropolis | steady | |
| metropole | rising | |
| capital | falling | |
| archbishopric | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- city2, town1
- 7 letters
- capital3
- 9 letters
- metropole
- 13 letters
- archbishopric
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (city2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- métropole
- Italiano
- metropoli
- Español
- metrópoli
- Deutsch
- Metropolis
- Català
- metròpolis