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metropole

noun
/ˈmɛtɹəpəʊl/UK/ˈmɛtɹəpoʊl/US

Etymology

From Middle English metropol, from Middle French metropole (“town with bishop's seat”), from Latin mētropolis. Doublet of metropolis.

  1. derived from mētropolis
  2. derived from metropole
  3. inherited from metropol

Definitions

  1. A metropolis

    A metropolis; the main city of a country or area.

  2. The parent-state of a colony.

    • Though the metropole remained confident in its Westminster ways, its newly independent colonies imposed constitutional constraints on the powers of parliament.
    • As Europe's population growth and commercial activity slowed down after 1620, its thirst for Spanish-American silver slackened: metropole and colony were drifting apart.

  3. A bishop's see.

The neighborhood

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