(n.) The mother city; the chief city of a kingdom, state, or country.
(n.) The seat, or see, of the metropolitan, or highest church dignitary.
Example Sentences:
(1) His ideas had their biggest trial in 2012 during a three-week series of games, involving over 1,000 players, that fed recommendations about transport and zoning into Detroit’s Future City study , which maps out the next 50 years for the embattled metropolis.
(2) It has been known that tsutsugamushi disease, so-called "Shichito-fever", is widely spread among the Izu Islands, Tokyo Metropolis.
(3) Supporters say Luzhkov transformed Moscow from a crumbling communist shell into a vibrant metropolis.
(4) A block further sits the Museum of Chocolate, joining the avant-garde of luxury chocolatiers that seem the hallmark of every bustling metropolis these days.
(5) For both men and women, single people had a lower survival rate than married, and patients living in a metropolis had a higher survival rate than those living in other areas.
(6) A preliminary survey was conducted for the prevalence of HIV infections in pulmonary tuberculosis and melioidosis patients in Ubon Ratchathani province, in Thailand, the second largest province in population which supplies labors to Bangkok metropolis.
(7) Under the glamorous billboards and ubiquitous skyscrapers of this fast-paced metropolis, the city is home to nine – soon to be 10 – universities, attended by hundreds of thousands of pupils.
(8) Very little effective effort went into the planned growth of the metropolis.
(9) Now Amsterdam, Utrecht and Groningen – not to mention cities such as Copenhagen, Münster and Seville – have become pioneers for a pro-cycling urban culture with extensive networks of cycle paths, as well as other clever ideas to make cycling around the metropolis easier.
(10) In another time, a pushy, brainy young Norman made his way to Europe's art metropolis: Poussin would make Rome his base until his death 41 years later in 1665.
(11) Forty-nine decapitated and mutilated bodies were found on Sunday dumped on a highway connecting the northern Mexican metropolis of Monterrey to the US border, in the latest suspected outburst in an escalating war among drug gangs.
(12) Saadiyat Island ("Happiness Island" in Arabic), a once uninhabited stretch of coastal desert close to Abu Dhabi's city centre, is steadily being converted by tens of thousands of migrant workers into a $27bn (£16.5bn) cultural metropolis.
(13) • Savage is every Friday and Saturday at Metropolis Studios, London, from 4 March (tickets £5), savagedisco.com The Mighty Hoop-la Facebook Twitter Pinterest Skewering the type of weekender you’d usually associate with Butlins (Redcoats, awkward cabaret, warring families), The Mighty Hoop-la has gathered many of the best alternative club nights – including those on this list, except Torture Garden, Hip Hop Karaoke and Savage – and performance troupes for a festival dedicated to high camp, high energy and high-concept fun.
(14) 5) The model is studied by the Monte Carlo method of Metropolis et al., which simulates a kinetic process approximately.
(15) There are so many possibilities to conceive a different kind of metropolis, for cities that are yet to be built.
(16) Long after the monastery had been dissolved and Clerkenwell swallowed by the growing metropolis, the east tower was home to Hogarth’s coffeehouse, opened by Richard, father of the famous artist, in 1703.
(17) This would have a profound ripple effect across the country, for health care access, universal coverage and even immigration reform.” The 'medical home' idea Getting to that point means creating a program that can handle the health problems of a sprawling metropolis.
(18) London's size is stifling; it's too sprawling a metropolis to regularly agree to go funk-ass crazy over a particular band en masse.
(19) He believes the multibillion-dollar project could transform daily life for millions of people in this uniquely challenging metropolis, and potentially expand west from Nigeria to Ghana.
(20) - diddoit This is all the result of centralisation of spending and planning in the metropolis and “market forces” being allowed to control everything ...
Necropolis
Definition:
(n.) A city of the dead; a name given by the ancients to their cemeteries, and sometimes applied to modern burial places; a graveyard.
Example Sentences:
(1) The tombs of the Dukes of Brabant were not concentrated in one dynastic necropolis, but located as well in abbeys (Affligem and Villers-la-Ville) as in churches belonging to cloisters or chapters, in Louvain and Brussels, the two towns successively used as the ducal residence.
(2) In this perspective, the differences observed between the two Roman populations and between the sexes (in Isola Sacra) appear to result from different social habits: the middle class population of Portus habitually used thermal baths, whereas it is probable that thermae were seldom frequented (if at all) by the Lucus Feroniae population represented in the necropolis (mostly composed by slaves or freedmen farm laborers).
(3) The authors describes a case of hypodontia in a male subject aged about 45 years and coming from the medieval necropolis of San Lorenzo of Aversa (Caserta, South Italy), dated to 890-1290 A.D. Hypodontia consists of the absence of a central inferior incisor (probably the left).
(4) To walk at ancient street levels through the necropolis is an exciting experience for those who love to step back in time.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cairo’s City of the Dead, a vast 7th-century necropolis, is thought to accommodate half a million families among its tombs and mausoleums.
(6) Spare a thought for the unknown adult mummified in a Theban necropolis more than 2,500 years go.
(7) The cathedral has been a royal necropolis since the sixth century where 43 kings and 32 queens are interred.
(8) It’s certainly an exceptional county in terms of stone age monuments, such as Queen Maeve’s cairn and the Neolithic necropolis of Carrowkeel.