English-Thai Dictionary

metropolis

N มหานคร  เมืองหลวง  เมือง ใหญ่  เมือง สำคัญ  city capital city megalopolis ma-ha-na-kon

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

METROPOLIS

n.[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.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

METROPOLIS

Me *trop "o *lis, n. Etym: [L. metropolis, Gr. 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.)

 

Defn: The seat, or see, of the metropolitan, or highest church dignitary. The great metropolis and see of Rome. Shak.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

metropolis

me trop o lis |məˈträp (ə )ləs məˈtrɑp (ə )ləs | ▶noun the capital or chief city of a country or region. • a very large and densely populated industrial and commercial city. ORIGIN late Middle English (denoting the see of a metropolitan bishop ): via late Latin from Greek mētropolis ‘mother state, ’ from mētēr, mētr - ‘mother ’ + polis ‘city. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

metropolis

metropolis |mɪˈtrɒp (ə )lɪs | ▶noun the capital or chief city of a country or region. • a very large and busy city. ORIGIN late Middle English (denoting the see of a metropolitan bishop ): via late Latin from Greek mētropolis ‘mother state ’, from mētēr, mētr - ‘mother ’ + polis ‘city ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

metropolis

metropolis noun their trip to the booming metropolis made them eager to return to their little house in the sticks: capital (city ), chief town, county town; big city, conurbation, megalopolis, megacity.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

metropolis

metropolis noun 1 their trip to London gave them nine days in the metropolis: capital (city ), chief town, state /regional /provincial capital, county town, county borough, administrative centre. 2 compared to Farafra, Bahriyah was a metropolis: big city, conurbation, megalopolis, urban sprawl, concrete jungle; informal big smoke; archaic wen.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

metropolis

me trop o lis /mətrɑ́p (ə )lɪs |-trɔ́p -/ (! 強勢は第2音節 ) 名詞 C 1 (国 州 地域の )主要都市, 大都市 ; 首都 .2 (産業 文化の )中心地 .