metropolitanism
- a word derived from metropolitan.
Example Sentences
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When Ginsburg and others enthuse that everybody was welcome, they mean matrons and stenographers, executives, artists and “bums,” to quote Brooks; a panorama of metropolitanism commingling over coffee and Salisbury steak.
From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2022
It is the only metropolitanism worth the name.
From New York Times • Aug. 27, 2020
But in the form of its expression it exemplified that illusion of metropolitanism which is to my mind the veriest cockneyism in disguise, and which cannot but strike Americans as either ridiculous or offensive.
From America To-day, Observations and Reflections by Archer, William
For to those in the happy state to which Thackeray alluded, the theatre was loved not for itself, but as a symbol of gaiety; I would almost say of metropolitanism as opposed to provincialism.
From Far Off Things by Machen, Arthur
She stayed at two or three places a day for at least one meal—hotels in tiny towns she had never heard of, and in larger towns that were fumbling for metropolitanism.
From The Job An American Novel by Lewis, Sinclair
