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metropolis
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[ noun ] (government) a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts
Synonyms Examples "Ancient Troy was a great city" Used in print (Gibson Winter, The Suburban Captivity of the...)In_general , religious interest seems to exist in all parts of the metropolis ; congregational membership , however , is another thing . In a rapidly changing society congregations will run_into difficulties repeatedly , since such nice balances of economic integration are hard to sustain in the metropolis for more_than a single generation . These trends seem to be working at cross-purposes in the metropolis . The motifs of impersonal interdependence and insulation of residential communities have polarized ; the schism between central_city and suburb , Negro and White , blue_collar and white_collar can be viewed_as symptomatic_of this deeper polarization of trends in the metropolis . Since American life is committed above_all to productivity and a higher standard of economic life , the countervailing forces of residential and religious exclusiveness have fought a desperate , rearguard action against the expanding interdependence of the metropolis . Related terms municipality New_York Chicago Dallas Kansas_City Los_Angeles Manchester San_Francisco Philadelphia St._Louis Detroit gateway_to_the_west Baltimore Houston Pittsburgh Cleveland Savannah Newport Memphis Montreal Fort_Worth New_Orleans Cincinnati Seattle Minneapolis Milwaukee Tel_Aviv Liverpool Bombay Palermo Birmingham Acapulco Firenze Bonn Manchester Venice Oxford Munich Las_Vegas Newcastle New_Haven Odessa Birmingham St._Petersburg Merida Cancun Antofagasta Veracruz Ciudad_Juarez Punta_Arenas national_capital Oaxaca Orizaba Valparaiso Jaffa Guadalajara Lanzhou provincial_capital Dunkirk Aquila Naples Tijuana Corinth Argos Delphi Mycenae Sparta Troy Thebes Thessalonika Sodom Gomorrah Nineveh Haifa Kyoto Byzantium Pompeii Herculaneum Messina Bologna San_Juan Shanghai Genoa Milan Bergen Pisa Syracuse Trondheim Canton state_capital Turin Bari Malmo Tangier Lagos Lund Shenyang Padua Gdansk Goteborg Verona Dubrovnik Dresden Tianjin Oran Ufa Volgograd Banff Calgary Leipzig Vancouver Saint_John Weimar Nanking Rostov Hamilton Saskatoon Antwerp Cologne Chungking Hamilton Bruges Natal Braunschweig Rio_de_Janeiro Recife Swansea Alexandria Aswan Giza Memphis Luxor Delhi Calcutta Dusseldorf Madras Salem Bandung Mashhad Shiraz Tabriz Qum Persepolis Edirne Babylon Assur Xian Utica Naha_City Osaka Sao_Paulo Hiroshima Sapporo Kitakyushu Fukuoka Nagasaki Aqaba Mombasa Bordeaux Cannes Nice Orleans Versailles Marseilles Lyon The_Hague Nijmegen Rotterdam Leiden Utrecht Thorshavn Taegu Pusan Tripoli Benghazi Zomba Timbuktu Casablanca Lancaster Aukland Essen Karachi Cebu Cracow Hull Lodz Wroclaw Papeete Mecca Hargeisa Cape_Town Johannesburg Bloemfontein Soweto Gorki Kazan St._Petersburg Perm Frankfurt_on_the_Main Luoyang |
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[ noun ] people living in a large densely populated municipality
Synonyms Examples "the city voted for Republicans in 1994" Related terms |
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