Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A metropolis.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A metropolis.

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  • noun A metropolis; the main city of a country or area.
  • noun The parent-state of a colony.
  • noun obsolete A bishop's see.

Etymologies

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From French metropole ‘town with bishop's seat’, from classical Latin mētropolis.

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Examples

  • Post-colonial theorists have worked hard to show this wasn’t true — that the colonies did influence what they call the metropole, or Britain.

    Interview with Meredith Duran | Edwardian Promenade 2009

  • "Although the list is not yet completed, we have already nominated and accepted the mayoral candidate for the metropole, which is myself."

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

  • One result of this grand, narcissistic vision was the eradication of the first Americans; another was the eventual shifting of the North Atlantic imperial metropole from London to the Boston-Washington corridor.

    Eamon Murphy: Theater Review: Jerusalem Eamon Murphy 2011

  • One result of this grand, narcissistic vision was the eradication of the first Americans; another was the eventual shifting of the North Atlantic imperial metropole from London to the Boston-Washington corridor.

    Eamon Murphy: Theater Review: Jerusalem Eamon Murphy 2011

  • One result of this grand, narcissistic vision was the eradication of the first Americans; another was the eventual shifting of the North Atlantic imperial metropole from London to the Boston-Washington corridor.

    Eamon Murphy: Theater Review: Jerusalem Eamon Murphy 2011

  • Before they built that Big Wall, when you had to drive your post-suburban vehicle forty-five minutes to welcome women and gays and everybody in the metropole who knew how to get to the Home Depot.

    Patricide: A Romance Chris Vola 2012

  • One result of this grand, narcissistic vision was the eradication of the first Americans; another was the eventual shifting of the North Atlantic imperial metropole from London to the Boston-Washington corridor.

    Eamon Murphy: Theater Review: Jerusalem Eamon Murphy 2011

  • The Burgers 'growing livestock wealth and expanding land claims, ever further from the center of colonial authority, were accompanied by increasing displays of domestic niceties associated with social status in the metropole and in the colonial heart of Cape Town. 24

    Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

  • Camorr feels dense, smelly, busy, corrupted, but what is most important: never unrealistic and always shifting, just like a real metropole should be.

    Archive 2008-02-01 2008

  • Camorr feels dense, smelly, busy, corrupted, but what is most important: never unrealistic and always shifting, just like a real metropole should be.

    Scott Lynch - The Lies of Locke Lamora (Book Review) 2008

  • In addition, this cartography of power can be further elaborated by demarcating the terrain of analysis: by identifying the metropoles—the centres of power—and their peripheries, which hold relatively less power and contest the metropole’s authority, participation and legitimacy in shaping everyday life11.

    Decolonial Foresight (1): Put the Fire Out 2020

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