Definition of Metrapolis

Me*trop"o*lis (?), n. [L. metropolis, Gr. &?;, prop., the mother city (in relation to colonies); &?; mother + &?; city. See Mother, and Police.]

1. The mother city; the chief city of a kingdom, state, or country.

[Edinburgh] gray metropolis of the North.

Tennyson.

2. (Eccl.) The seat, or see, of the metropolitan, or highest church dignitary.

The great metropolis and see of Rome.

Shak.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

METROPOLIS, n. A stronghold of provincialism.

- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

Latin

- The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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