Minimetropolis

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A relatively small metropolis.

    "He arrived here 58 years ago and helped transform a onetime cow town into a minimetropolis, a former agricultural college into a prominent university and a football program into a national power."

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"He arrived here 58 years ago and helped transform a onetime cow town into a minimetropolis, a former agricultural college into a prominent university and a football program into a national power."

Etymology

From mini- + metropolis.

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