metropole
Americannoun
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metropoles
plural
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a large city, often the main city in a region; metropolis.
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the country or principal city governing a colony or empire.
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They wanted to retain their connection to the metropole because they saw the combination of representative institutions and independence as the death-knell of their preeminence and their control over property.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2023
“Amsterdam is a metropole and crowds and bustle are inherent features, but to keep our city liveable we now have to choose for restriction instead of irresponsible growth,” he said.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 2023
Just as the imperial metropole shaped life on the plantation, the plantation also shaped life in the metropole.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 9, 2019
A Martinican of African descent, citizen of a former French colony, he also had a necessarily complicated relationship with the literary traditions of the metropole.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 15, 2015
There the British stashed commodities like coal and cotton bound for the metropole.
From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2010
He worried that in the wake of colonialism, Caribbean society was recreating the same class structures, and even finding new imperial metropoles to submit to, above all the United States.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2022
Meanwhile, the surging mainstream popularity of K-pop and Afrobeats has scrambled our sense of pop’s metropoles.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 22, 2019
Pickup trucks started pouring into the tiny town of Calvert, smack in the middle of Texas’s four metropoles.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 21, 2018
This began the skyscraper craze, allowing developers in eastern cities to build and market prestigious real estate in the hearts of crowded eastern metropoles.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014
It was the accumulations of a fifteen-year excursion through the metropoles of art which demanded a gallery of their own.
From Imperial Purple by Edgar Saltus
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