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megacity

Definitions

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  • noun A very large city; a megalopolis.

Etymologies

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From mega- +‎ city.

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Examples

  • The grandest expression of the world's population growth is in the word "megacity."

    News 2011

  • The grandest expression of the world's population growth is in the word "megacity."

    News 2011

  • The grandest expression of the world's population growth is in the word "megacity."

    News 2011

  • As continental Europe's only "megacity" - a population greater than 10 million - Istanbul believes itself to be an international beacon of how a city can grow both successfully and rapidly.

    The Guardian World News Leo Hickman 2011

  • A transformation process is underway to abolish these categories and replace them with a megacity, that is, a big single-tier city structured like our present TLCs.

    Editorial 1997

  • In the 1960s, some architect who is yet to be identified to receive the credit, coined the term megacity and megastructure, and it's fascinating to look back and consider the many projects that were put forward in the 60s under this term as utopias.

    Possibilities of Great Richness 1989

  • The claimed that drinking water can be extracted from the humidity in the air even in the desert or in the middle of a megacity, which is made possible by a technology developed by

    Daily News & Analysis 2010

  • But he just didn't seem to have the chops to run "megacity" Toronto once it became a reality.

    at last, the toronto song 2005

  • Opposition parties said the bill was unconstitutional because it only provided for a single-city ( "megacity") structure in metropolitan areas, and not for the option of an effective two-tier system.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • Opposition parties said the bill was unconstitutional because it only provided for a single-city ( "megacity") structure in metropolitan areas, and not for the option of an effective two-tier system.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

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  • MaryW commented on the word megacity

    Variants survive today in slum-ridden megacities like Cairo, Mumbai, and Buenos Aires, but the epitome was early nineteenth-century London, where a scavenger army of tens of thousands of impoverished men, women, and children, each with a defined specialty, scavenged the dregs of the metropolis. There were toshers in the sewers and mudlarks on the riverbanks, rag-pickers atop rubbish heaps and bone-pickers behind kitchens. "Pure-finders" scooped up dog manure for tanneries, dustmen collected ash and night-soil men emptied cesspools. . . . Teeming cities like London and Paris could not have functioned without the ad hoc scavenging system, but the cost was very high. The scavengers worked in filth, and as the investigations of William Farr and John Snow demonstrated, filthy conditions were crucial in the spread of communicable disease.
    Dan Fagin, Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation (New York: Bantam Books, 2014), p. 85

    February 7, 2016