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metro
  1. An underground railway.
  2. A train that runs on such an underground railway.
  3. An urban rapid transit light railway
  4. A train that runs on such a railway.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “I took the metro to work this morning, smoothly commuting through the underground tunnels of London.”
metropolis
  1. (historical) The mother (founding) polis (city state) of a colony, especially in the Hellenistic world.
    1. The mother country of a colony.
  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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  5. Examples:
    1. “The state's metropolis was in this area, and most of the merchants, factors, and lawyers lived there.”
      “It was a rather dreary day outside, which really wasn't unusual in the busy metropolis of San Francisco.”
      “Here I was in this tiny ramshackle village, St Paul's, the complete antithesis of the metropolis.”
metropole
  1. A metropolis; the main city of a country or area. [from 15th c.]
  2. The parent-state of a colony. [from 19th c.]
  3. (now rare) A bishop's see. [from 19th c.]
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  5. Examples:
    1. “State monopolies or privileged private companies secure strategic resources and keep open the conduits that provide money to the metropole.”
      “Returning to September 1959, he already felt that the only chance left for a French Algeria was action in the metropole.”
      “Many writers have believed, however, that the modern European empires did involve such a systematic robbing of colonies to enrich the metropole.”
metropolitan
metroplex
  1. (US) A large metropolitan area containing several cities and their suburbs.
  2. Examples:
    1. “No one was thrilled to see all those chemicals going up into the already questionable air we breathe here in the metroplex.”
      “Not long, I'll bet, when it becomes apparent that the metroplex has not been brought back into compliance by these measures.”
      “Cost of living is very reasonable here and we have all of the advantages of being near a metroplex in Dallas.”
metropolitanate
  1. The see of a metropolitan bishop.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “But then came the official denial from the Varna metropolitanate that Kiril had resigned from the Synod.”
      “Dioceses of Subotica and Zrenjanin entered the newly formed Metropolitanate of Belgrade.”
metropolitanism
  1. The quality or state of being metropolitan.
  2. Examples:
    1. “This attitude condemns Sydney, with all its potential for stylish metropolitanism, to dozy provincialism.”
      “Mrs. Gammit felt abashed at her ignorance, but gratified, at the same time, by the reproach of metropolitanism.”
      “All this gives Arles a certain air of metropolitanism, but it does not in the least overshadow the memories of its past.”
metrocentrism
  1. metrocentric attitudes and practices
metro
metropolite
  1. (obsolete) A metropolitan.
metropolia
  1. plural of metropolis (see of a metropolitan bishop)
metropolitanates
metropolitanisms
  1. plural of metropolitanism
metropolitans
  1. plural of metropolitan
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  3. Examples:
    1. “I couldn't very well leave a lady at such a time. We small towners are yet to learn the impersonality of metropolitans.”
      “Curiously it's metropolitans in Belfast and Dublin who are the most ready to put on cod Fermanagh accents.”
      “Specifically, the Board urges a revival of the oversight role of metropolitans, i.e., archbishops overseeing bishops in their province.”
metropolites
  1. plural of metropolite
metropoleis
metropolises
  1. plural of metropolis
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  3. Examples:
    1. “New World tropical leafcutter ants create colossal underground metropolises, each housing several million workers that tend huge fungus gardens.”
      “He said that in other metropolises such as Tokyo, people living in suburban areas were still considered to be Tokyo residents.”
      “The United Nations coined the term megacity in the 1970s to describe metropolises with 10 million or more residents.”
metropoles
  1. plural of metropole
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Among their number were the metropoles of Greece and Rome, the traditional cultural colonizing powers.”
      “These movements challenged the conditions under which racialized labor was available for exploitation in the former colonies as well as the metropoles.”
      “The shadow that their great houses cast over nearby slave cabins reached as far as the distant metropoles, so that few were untouched by the planters' enormous presence.”
metroplexes
  1. plural of metroplex
metros
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