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metropolis

B2 noun

metropolis /məˈtɹɑp.ə.lɪs/ nghĩa là thành phố mẹ

Các nghĩa

  1. thành phố mẹ

    The mother (founding) polis (city state) of a colony.

    Algiers is a metropolis.

    The town felt like a metropolis.

    Algiers is a thriving modern metropolis.

  2. siêu đô thị

    A large, busy city, especially as the main city in an area or country or as distinguished from surrounding rural areas.

    Holonym: metropolitan area

    An immense metropolis, like London, is calculated to make men selfish and uninteresting.

    Love is dead in metropolis / All contact through glove or partition

  3. tòa giám mục đô thành

    The see of a metropolitan bishop, ranking above its suffragan diocesan bishops.

  4. trung tâm phân bố

    A generic focus in the distribution of plants or animals.

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