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megacity

noun

Etymology

From mega- + city.

  1. derived from *ḱey-✻ — “lie down; settle”
  2. derived from civitas
  3. derived from citet
  4. inherited from cite
  5. prefixed as megacity — “mega + city”

Definitions

  1. A very large city

    A very large city; a megalopolis.

    • Why, for instance, do water users in a megacity like Lagos not pay an extra charge to get cesspits pumped out?

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for megacity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA