Metropole

//ˈmɛtɹəpoʊl// noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A metropolis; the main city of a country or area.

    "The first Antifas functioned as platforms to organize against far-right groups like the National Democratic Party (NPD) in an autonomist movement still numbering in the tens of thousands of active members and capable of occupying entire city blocks in some West German metropoles."

  2. 2
    The parent-state of a colony.

    "Though the metropole remained confident in its Westminster ways, its newly independent colonies imposed constitutional constraints on the powers of parliament."

  3. 3
    A bishop's see. archaic

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metropolis

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"The first Antifas functioned as platforms to organize against far-right groups like the National Democratic Party (NPD) in an autonomist movement still numbering in the tens of thousands of active members and capable of occupying entire city blocks in some West German metropoles."

Etymology

From Middle English metropol, from Middle French metropole (“town with bishop's seat”), from Latin mētropolis. Doublet of metropolis.

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