metropolitan
adjective
of, noting, or characteristic of a metropolis or its inhabitants, especially in culture, sophistication, or in accepting and combining a wide variety of people, ideas, etc.
metropolitanism
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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
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 Sinclair Lewis
Perhaps the only city of considerable proportions in which the rigorous proprieties of a New England village exist side by side with the gorgeous trappings of metropolitanism is Chicago.
From With Edge Tools by H. C. (Hobart Chatfield) Chatfield-Taylor
Mrs. Gammit felt abashed at her ignorance, but gratified, at the same time, by the reproach of metropolitanism.
From The Backwoodsmen by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
