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metropolitanism

noun

Etymology

From metropolitan + -ism.

  1. derived from μητροπολίτης
  2. derived from metropolitanus
  3. suffixed as metropolitanism — “metropolitan + ism”

Definitions

  1. The quality or state of being metropolitan.

    • 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.
    • Bennietod was Bowery-born and office-bred, and this sad metropolitanism almost made of him a good philosopher.
    • 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.

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