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Webster 1913 Edition

Metropolis

Me-trop′o-lis

,
Noun.
[L.
metropolis
, Gr. [GREEK], prop., the mother city (in relation to colonies); [GREEK] mother + [GREEK] city. See
Mother
, and
Police
.]
1.
The mother city; the chief city of a kingdom, state, or country.
[Edinburgh] gray
metropolis
of the North.
Tennyson.
2.
(Eccl.)
The seat, or see, of the metropolitan, or highest church dignitary.
The great
metropolis
and see of Rome.
Shakespeare

Webster 1828 Edition

Metropolis

METROP'OLIS

,
Noun.
[L. from Gr. mother, and city. It has no plural.]
Literally, the mother-city, that is, the chief city or capital of a kingdom, state or country, as Paris in France, Madrid in Spain, London in Great Britain. In the United States, Washington, in the District of Columbia, is the metropolis, as being the seat of government; but in several of the states, the largest cities are not the seats of the respective governments. Yet New York city, in the state of that name, and Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, are the chief cities, and may be called each the metropolis of the state in which it is situated, though neither of them is the seat of government in the state.

Definition 2024

Metropolis

Metropolis

German

Noun

Metropolis f ‎(genitive Metropolis, plural Metropolen)

  1. metropolis
  2. a bishop's see

Declension

Synonyms

metropolis

metropolis

English

Noun

metropolis ‎(plural metropolises or metropoleis)

  1. (historical) The mother (founding) polis (city state) of a colony, especially in the Ancient Greek/Hellenistic world.
  2. A large, busy city, especially as the main city in an area or country or as distinguished from surrounding rural areas.
  3. (canon law) The see of a metropolitan archbishop, ranking above its suffragan diocesan bishops.

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References

  1. 1 2 The Concise Oxford English Dictionary [Eleventh Edition]

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: me‧tro‧po‧lis

Etymology

From Latin mētropolis, from Ancient Greek μητρόπολις ‎(mētrópolis, “mother city”).

Noun

metropolis f ‎(plural metropolissen, diminutive metropolisje n)

  1. metropolis

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Related terms

  • metropoliet
  • metropolitaans

Latin

Etymology

Late Latin, from Ancient Greek μητρόπολις ‎(mētrópolis, “a city or mother state”), from μητρο- ‎(mētro-, “mother-”) + πόλις ‎(pólis, “city”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /meːˈtro.po.lis/, [meːˈtrɔ.pɔ.lɪs]

Noun

mētropolis m ‎(genitive mētropolis); third declension

  1. metropolis

Inflection

Third declension, alternative accusative singular in -im, alternative ablative singular in -ī and accusative plural in -īs.

Case Singular Plural
nominative mētropolis mētropolēs
genitive mētropolis mētropolium
dative mētropolī mētropolibus
accusative mētropolem
mētropolim 		mētropolēs
mētropolīs
ablative mētropole
mētropolī 		mētropolibus
vocative mētropolis mētropolēs

Derived terms

References

  • metropolis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • METROPOLIS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • metropolis in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • metropolis in William Smith., editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • metropolis in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • metropolis in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

metròpolis m ‎(Cyrillic spelling метро̀полис)

  1. A metropolis

Declension

Spanish

Noun

metropolis

  1. plural of metropoli

Etymology

From Latin, from Ancient Greek.

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