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
Bytown mentioned in the foregoing chapter is now called Ottawa, and is a candidate, in conjunction with Montreal and Toronto, for the honour of permanent metropolitanism.
From Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada by Henry A. Murray
It was ceasing to be an overgrown town—half village, half city—and was attaining a real metropolitanism.
From The Romance of a Great Store by Edward Hungerford
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 William Archer
