metropolis

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

a large important city (often the capital city of a country or region)

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

metropolisEnglish›UyghurMain Dictionary metropolisEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary metropolisEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

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