Meaning of metropolis in English
(Definition of metropolis from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of metropolis from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
metropolis | Business English
Examples of metropolis
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That frustration expressed itself in harsh censure of a metropolis where success apparently had to be won at the price of personal honour.
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On the one hand, those systems permitted the country to "invade" the city, as country dwellers migrated to the metropolis in huge numbers.
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Furthermore, the metropolis was an important purveyor of cinematographic spectacle, as witnessed by the popularity of an early genre : the ' ' urban panoramas.
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A further example of this process can be found in the concept of circulation that dominated the industrial development of the nineteenth-century metropolis.
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But in the world's metropolis even the imperial language itself cannot retain its purity.
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And there the bells speak, recalling him as one who is destined to penetrate to the commercial metropolis's inner core.
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Finally, the divided metropolis provided fertile ground for new ideas about the role of government.
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A major concern throughout the book is to trace the bonds linking metropolis and provinces.
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The data suggest that these foreign residents were of intermediate status, perhaps, as argued earlier, serving as merchants or trade representatives from the highland metropolis.
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The remaining chapters assess how the metropolis attempted to re-establish control over its dominions and examine the settlers' responses to these various initiatives.
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We observe that in the heart of the great metropolis, linguistic changes advance steadily from one female age cohort to another.
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He traces the development of racism in that metropolis from its origins in the early seventeenth century.
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However, new ways of 'doing' urban history have begun to stimulate greater interest in the metropolis as an object of study.
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Of course, this was possible because of another boundary - geographical distance - between the colony and the metropolis.
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But the characteristics of the metropolis force historians to reconsider this idea.
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büyük şehir, büyük kent, başkent…
métropole…
metropool…
metropole…
hovedstad…
kota besar…
มหานคร…
thủ đô…
metropolia…
metropol, huvudstad…
metropolis…
die Hauptstadt…
storby, verdensby, hovedstad…
метрополія…
крупный город, столица…
