metropole
noun
a large city, often the main city in a region; metropolis.
metropoles
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pluralof metropole.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
No one will regard our modern rise of metropoles as a healthy phenomenon.
From Woman under socialism by Daniel De Leon
