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(n)
A large settlement, bigger than a town; sometimes with a specific legal definition, depending on the place.
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a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts
The continent; the principal land, as distinguished from islands or a peninsula.
The inhabitant of a metropolis.
A metropolis; the main city of a country or area.
A surname originating as a patronymic.
A cosmopolitan person; a cosmopolite.
(general) A rapid transit rail transport system, or a train in such systems, generally underground and serving a metropolitan area.
The current moment or period of time.
A place in Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Ottawa and Saint-Lawrence Rivers
A place name, including:
A large conurbation, where two or more large cities have sprawled outward to meet, forming something larger than a normal metropolis.
A continuous aggregation of built-up urban communities created as a result of urban sprawl.
(uncountable, business, finance, insurance) Money and wealth. The means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.
A district with a government that typically encloses no other governed districts; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village.
A very large city; a megalopolis.
(N)
A big city is a metropolis.
Cape Town
The geographical area contained within the city limits.
Something to be sat upon.
An area of population usually with a central or core city and surrounding towns or suburbs.
(historical) A Greek city-state.
An urban village in Phoenix, Arizona, United States.
(adj)
Of or pertaining to a megapolis (“a very large city or urban complex”).
(historical) a city in ancient Greece
(historical) Any of a number of Ancient Greek cities and colonies.
A city or region characterized by its knowledge and ideas.
A sovereign city, as in Ancient Greece, often part of a league of such cities.
(Ancient Greece) The unification of towns, tribes etc. under one capital city or polis.
The Athenian Acropolis. (Compare acropolis.)
(pedantic) a community
(philosophy) The utopian city state ruled by philosopher kings as theorised by Plato in the Republic.
(Ancient Greece) A founder of a colony.
(archaic) The city of Rome in Italy and the city of Constantinople (the "New Rome") taken together; the empire(s) ruled by these cities.
(historical, Ancient Greece, originally) The military commander in chief in Athens, one of the nine archonts.
(Orthodox Christianity) The see or province of a metropolitan.
Synonym of Kallipolis in its various senses.
The capital city of Greece.
(medicine) Abnormal contraction of a canal or orifice.
An ancient city in Greece, home of the very first Olympic Games.
A large, often circular building, for indoor sporting events, exhibitions, concerts, etc.; arena.
A geographic and/or institutional grouping of five cities
(historical, Ancient Greece) citizenship
An ancient city and archaeological site in Upper Egypt, having functioned as capital city at times during the Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom.
Of or characteristic of the Ecumenopolis.
(historical) The citadel of ancient Thebes, Greece.
A city in Ancient Egypt, the only permanent Greek colony there.
(Ancient Greece) A deputy of a state at the amphictyonic council.
(US) Any building or complex of buildings in which a legislature meets.
An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.
A town square in Greece or Cyprus
(historical) A country district with scattered hamlets.
Of or relating to a group of people having common racial, ancestral, national, religious or cultural origins.
A major city, the capital of Italy and the Italian region of Lazio, located on the Tiber River; the ancient capital of the Roman Empire.
An association or federation of distinct city-states with shared political institutions and citizenship.
(uncommon) Synonym of Capitoline Hill.
(historical) Former name of Naples: a port city in southwestern Italy.
A group or confederation of twelve cities.
(dated) Alternative spelling of Thebes. [A city in central Greece, the capital city of Boeotia and an important political centre in antiquity.]
(historical) The city of Milan in the era of Ancient Rome.
(historical) The name of numerous Hellenistic cities named after Heracles.
(architecture, historical) The rectangular great hall in a Mycenaean building, usually supported with pillars.
(historical) An ancient Greek city-state in northwestern Peloponnese, modern Greece.
The outside boundary, parts or surface of something.
A walled city in Ancient Rome.
An administrative subdivision of certain countries, including Canada and China.
(historical) The outermost part of the cosmos in the Ptolemaic system; Heaven.
(history) A city that was located in Ancient Greece.
Greek (especially linguistically Greek) character or style.
(historical) Former name of Chania: a city on the island of Crete, Greece.
An ancient Greek colony in south Italy, notable for the luxury of its inhabitants.
Of or relating to Corinth.
Of or relating to the Lydian city of Colophon.
(Platonic philosophy) The (usually benevolent) being that created the universe out of primal matter.
Alternative form of Cadmea. [(historical) The citadel of ancient Thebes, Greece.]
(architecture) The inner area of the portico of a Greek or Roman temple
(historical) Government by an assembly of citizens in Ancient Greece.
(historical) A historical region of central Italy, in which the city of Rome was founded and grew to be the capital city of the Roman Empire.
(archaic) The common good; public wellbeing or prosperity.
A work of prose fiction, longer than a novella.
A grove near Athens (named after the Athenian hero Akademos), where Plato founded his original Akademia in 385 B.C.
A periphery where Athens, the capital of Greece, is located.
Alternative form of Docimium (“ancient city”). [(historical) An ancient city in Phrygia, Asia Minor, known for its marble quarries.]
(chiefly Ancient Greece) Ground under, surrounding and adjacent to a temple; a sacred enclosure or precinct.
(historical) A former city in Libya, the westernmost of the three cities of Tripoli.
(historical) The original open-air public meeting space of Ancient Rome, of great religious significance.
Former name of Ptolemaida.