Synonyms for METROPOLIS
mɪˈtrɒp ə lɪsme·trop·o·lis

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1. metropolisnoun

   Synonyms:
   mother city, metropole

2. metropolisnoun

   Synonyms:
   archbishopric

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1. metropolis

   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.

   Synonyms:
   capital, chief city, seat of government

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1. city, metropolis, urban centernoun

   a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts

   "Ancient Troy was a great city"

   Synonyms:
   metropolis, city, urban center

2. city, metropolisnoun

   people living in a large densely populated municipality

   "the city voted for Republicans in 1994"

   Synonyms:
   metropolis, city, urban center

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1. • Municipality

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1. metropolisnoun

   Synonyms:
   chief city, capital

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1. List of paraphrases for "metropolis":

   métropole, metropolitan, cosmopolitan, city

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1. List of known nicknames for "Metropolis":

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1. Alfredo Barrera Rubio:

   It was in the Terminal Classic when Chichn Itz, becoming a prominent metropolis in the northeast of present-day Yucatn, extended its influence over sites such as Kulub.

2. John Hannah:

   While elements of the Iraqi Army have gradually been able to evict ISIS from Iraq's smaller towns and cities, the challenge of liberating Mosul was of a whole different order of magnitude, it’s a vast metropolis that had millions of inhabitants, enormous sectarian and ethnic complexity, and was the historical bastion of Sunni [ Muslim ] revanchism in Iraq. The fight was always going to be toughest in Mosul, which is why it was left for last.

3. Ross Barney:

   Being in the center of a global metropolis, this project faced and overcame a lot of issues, there were a lot of pioneering approaches, from design through to funding, that I think many of the world's cities could benefit from.

4. Quentin Crisp:

   In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.

5. Amadou Doumbia:

   Sydney Airport is a city that has never really invested deeply in a cohesive plan for being congruent -- at least until now, you look at the city center and it's towering with soaring corporate buildings or incredible colonial era buildings. But the minute you leave these areas, you're faced with a' city' that feels half metropolis and half suburban.