See metropolis on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2010, James Mahoney, Colonialism and Postcolonial Development: Spanish America in Comparative Perspective:",
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"feminine"
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"sense": "colony’s mother city",
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"roman": "metropólija",
"sense": "colony’s mother city",
"tags": [
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],
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"tags": [
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"tags": [
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"word": "មាតុក្រុង"
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"tags": [
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"word": "metropolia"
},
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"tags": [
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"sense": "colony’s mother city",
"tags": [
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"feminine"
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"word": "метро̀пола"
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{
"_dis1": "50 14 30 7",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "colony’s mother city",
"word": "metropoli"
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"_dis1": "50 14 30 7",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "colony’s mother city",
"word": "metropol"
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "metropólija",
"sense": "colony’s mother city",
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"sense": "colony’s mother city",
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]
},
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{
"text": "Holonym: metropolitan area"
},
{
"text": "Coordinate term: capital city"
},
{
"ref": "1819, Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, Rural Life in England:",
"text": "An immense metropolis, like London, is calculated to make men selfish and uninteresting.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 52:",
"text": "[I]t would not be very much less absurd for someone to write about New York City after having spent only a few years or a few decades in this metropolis of inexhaustible adventure, of terrifying emotional fecundity, of uncapturable character.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1983, “Sleeper in Metropolis”, in Changing Places, performed by Anne Clark:",
"text": "Love is dead in metropolis / All contact through glove or partition",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2008, “Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros”, performed by Flight of the Conchords:",
"text": "They call me the Hiphopopotamus / Flows that glow like phosphorous / Popping off the top of this esophagus / Rocking this metropolis",
"type": "quote"
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],
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"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"word": "metropol"
},
{
"_dis1": "24 73 2 1",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "mjehapólis",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "мегапо́ліс"
},
{
"_dis1": "24 73 2 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "metrópolis",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "метро́полис"
},
{
"_dis1": "24 73 2 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "megapólis",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "мегапо́лис"
},
{
"_dis1": "24 73 2 1",
"code": "ca",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "metròpolis"
},
{
"_dis1": "24 73 2 1",
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"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
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],
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},
{
"_dis1": "24 73 2 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"word": "大都會"
},
{
"_dis1": "24 73 2 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "dàdūhuì",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"word": "大都会"
},
{
"_dis1": "24 73 2 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "dàchéngshì",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"word": "大城市"
},
{
"_dis1": "24 73 2 1",
"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "dūshì",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"word": "都市"
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{
"_dis1": "24 73 2 1",
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"roman": "dàdūshì",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"word": "大都市"
},
{
"_dis1": "24 73 2 1",
"code": "cs",
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"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
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"word": "velkoměsto"
},
{
"_dis1": "24 73 2 1",
"code": "da",
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"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
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"_dis1": "24 73 2 1",
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"sense": "large, busy city",
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"word": "storby"
},
{
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "metropool"
},
{
"_dis1": "24 73 2 1",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"word": "grootstad"
},
{
"_dis1": "24 73 2 1",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"word": "wereldstad"
},
{
"_dis1": "24 73 2 1",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"word": "urbego"
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{
"_dis1": "24 73 2 1",
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"word": "suurlinn"
},
{
"_dis1": "24 73 2 1",
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"word": "metropoli"
},
{
"_dis1": "24 73 2 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"word": "suurkaupunki"
},
{
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
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"word": "métropole"
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{
"_dis1": "24 73 2 1",
"code": "de",
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"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "Metropole"
},
{
"_dis1": "24 73 2 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
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"word": "Weltstadt"
},
{
"_dis1": "24 73 2 1",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "mitrópoli",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "μητρόπολη"
},
{
"_dis1": "24 73 2 1",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "metropolín",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "מֶטְרוֹפּוֹלִין"
},
{
"_dis1": "24 73 2 1",
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"word": "metropolisz"
},
{
"_dis1": "24 73 2 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"word": "nagyváros"
},
{
"_dis1": "24 73 2 1",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
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"word": "stórborg"
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{
"_dis1": "24 73 2 1",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ceannchathair"
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{
"_dis1": "24 73 2 1",
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"sense": "large, busy city",
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"word": "metropoli"
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"word": "メトロポリス"
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"_dis1": "24 73 2 1",
"code": "km",
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"word": "ទីក្រុងមេ"
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"_dis1": "24 73 2 1",
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"roman": "miətokrong",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"word": "មាតុក្រុង"
},
{
"_dis1": "24 73 2 1",
"alt": "大都市",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "daedosi",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"word": "대도시"
},
{
"_dis1": "24 73 2 1",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "meteuropolliseu",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"word": "메트로폴리스"
},
{
"_dis1": "24 73 2 1",
"code": "kmr",
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"sense": "large, busy city",
"word": "metropol"
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{
"_dis1": "24 73 2 1",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
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{
"_dis1": "24 73 2 1",
"code": "mk",
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"sense": "colony’s mother city",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "metròpolis"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "colony’s mother city",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "metròpoli"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "colony’s mother city",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "moderby"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "colony’s mother city",
"word": "metropolis"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "colony’s mother city",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "metropool"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "colony’s mother city",
"word": "moederstad"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "colony’s mother city",
"word": "metropolo"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "colony’s mother city",
"word": "metropol"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "colony’s mother city",
"word": "metropolis"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "colony’s mother city",
"word": "emäkaupunki"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "colony’s mother city",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "métropole"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "meṭroṗolia",
"sense": "colony’s mother city",
"word": "მეტროპოლია"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "mitrópoli",
"sense": "colony’s mother city",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "μητρόπολη"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "colony’s mother city",
"word": "metropolisz"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "colony’s mother city",
"word": "anyaország"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "colony’s mother city",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ceannchathair"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "miətokrong",
"sense": "colony’s mother city",
"word": "មាតុក្រុង"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "tiikrongmei",
"sense": "colony’s mother city",
"word": "ទីក្រុងមេ"
},
{
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "colony’s mother city",
"word": "metropol"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "colony’s mother city",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "metropolis"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "colony’s mother city",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "metropole"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "metropola",
"sense": "colony’s mother city",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "метропола"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "colony’s mother city",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "metropol"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "colony’s mother city",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "metropolia"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "colony’s mother city",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "metrópole"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "colony’s mother city",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "metropolă"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "stolíca",
"sense": "colony’s mother city",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "столи́ца"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "metropólija",
"sense": "colony’s mother city",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "метропо́лия"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "colony’s mother city",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "метро̀пола"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "colony’s mother city",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "metròpola"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "colony’s mother city",
"word": "metropoli"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "colony’s mother city",
"word": "metropol"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "metropólija",
"sense": "colony’s mother city",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "метропо́лія"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "colony’s mother city",
"word": "metropoel"
},
{
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"word": "metropol"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "mjehapólis",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "мегапо́ліс"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "metrópolis",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "метро́полис"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "megapólis",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "мегапо́лис"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "metròpolis"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "metròpoli"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"word": "大都會"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "dàdūhuì",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"word": "大都会"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "dàchéngshì",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"word": "大城市"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "dūshì",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"word": "都市"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "dàdūshì",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"word": "大都市"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "velkoměsto"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "metropol"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "storby"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "metropool"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"word": "grootstad"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"word": "wereldstad"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"word": "urbego"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"word": "suurlinn"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"word": "metropoli"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"word": "suurkaupunki"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "métropole"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Metropole"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Weltstadt"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "mitrópoli",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "μητρόπολη"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "metropolín",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "מֶטְרוֹפּוֹלִין"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"word": "metropolisz"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"word": "nagyváros"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "stórborg"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ceannchathair"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "metropoli"
},
{
"alt": "だいとし",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "daitoshi",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"word": "大都市"
},
{
"alt": "だいとかい",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "daitokai",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"word": "大都会"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "metoroporisu",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"word": "メトロポリス"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "tiikrongmei",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"word": "ទីក្រុងមេ"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "miətokrong",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"word": "មាតុក្រុង"
},
{
"alt": "大都市",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "daedosi",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"word": "대도시"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "meteuropolliseu",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"word": "메트로폴리스"
},
{
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"word": "metropol"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "metropole"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "metropola",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "метропола"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "velegrad",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "велеград"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "metropol",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"word": "متروپل"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "kalânšahr",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"word": "کلانشهر"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "metropolia"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "metrópole"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "metropolă"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "megapólis",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "мегапо́лис"
},
{
"alt": "делово́й, культу́рный",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "centr",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"usually"
],
"word": "центр"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "metropólija",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "метропо́лия"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "ве̏легра̄д"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "метро̀полис"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "метро̀пола"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "vȅlegrād"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "metròpolis"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "metròpola"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "veľkomesto"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "metropola"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "urbe"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "metrópolis"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "metropol"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "storstad"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"word": "daklunsod"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"word": "metropol"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "mehapólis",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "мегапо́ліс"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "metrópolis",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "метро́поліс"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "large, busy city",
"word": "siêu đô thị"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "mitrapólija",
"sense": "see of a metropolitan bishop, ranking above its suffragan diocesan bishops",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "мітрапо́лія"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "see of a metropolitan bishop, ranking above its suffragan diocesan bishops",
"word": "metropoliittakunta"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "mitropólija",
"sense": "see of a metropolitan bishop, ranking above its suffragan diocesan bishops",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "митропо́лия"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "mytropólija",
"sense": "see of a metropolitan bishop, ranking above its suffragan diocesan bishops",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "митропо́лія"
}
],
"word": "metropolis"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"word": "mētropolītānus"
}
],
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ca",
"2": "metròpoli"
},
"expansion": "Catalan: metròpoli",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Catalan: metròpoli"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "métropole"
},
"expansion": "French: métropole",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "French: métropole"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "metropoli"
},
"expansion": "Italian: metropoli",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Italian: metropoli"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pms",
"2": "metròpol"
},
"expansion": "Piedmontese: metròpol",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Piedmontese: metròpol"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "metrópole"
},
"expansion": "Portuguese: metrópole",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Portuguese: metrópole"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "metrópoli"
},
"expansion": "Spanish: metrópoli",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Spanish: metrópoli"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "metropolis",
"3": "metropole"
},
"expansion": "English: metropolis, metropole",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "English: metropolis, metropole"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "Metropolis"
},
"expansion": "German: Metropolis",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "German: Metropolis"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "grc",
"3": "μητρόπολις",
"4": "",
"5": "a mother city or state"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek μητρόπολις (mētrópolis, “a mother city or state”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Late Latin, from Ancient Greek μητρόπολις (mētrópolis, “a mother city or state”), from μητρο- (mētro-, “mother-”) + πόλις (pólis, “city”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "mētropolis",
"tags": [
"canonical",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"form": "mētropolis",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "mētropoleōs",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "mētropolios",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "la-ndecl",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "mētropolis",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "mētropolēs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "mētropoleis",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "mētropolis",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "mētropoleōs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "mētropolios",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "mētropolium",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "mētropolī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
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"accusative",
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]
},
{
"form": "mētropolin",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
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"accusative",
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]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
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"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
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"source": "declension",
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"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
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"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
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"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
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"plural",
"vocative"
]
},
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},
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}
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},
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],
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"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"word": "Mētropolis"
},
{
"word": "māter"
}
],
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"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
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"Latin nouns with red links in their inflection tables",
"Latin terms derived from Ancient Greek",
"Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Latin third declension nouns",
"Pages with 5 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
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"metropolis"
],
"links": [
[
"metropolis",
"#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3"
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/meːˈtro.po.lis/",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[meːˈt̪rɔpɔlʲɪs̠]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/meˈtro.po.lis/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[meˈt̪rɔːpolis]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
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}
{
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"2": "noun form"
},
"expansion": "metropolis",
"name": "head"
}
],
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"Middle English non-lemma forms",
"Middle English noun forms",
"Pages with 5 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
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{
"word": "metropol"
}
],
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],
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[
"metropol",
"metropol#Middle_English"
]
],
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"plural"
]
}
],
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}
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"tags": [
"canonical",
"masculine"
]
},
{
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"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
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"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
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"inflection-template"
]
},
{
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"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "metropolisa",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "metropolisa",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "metropolisu",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "metropolisima",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "metropolis",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "metropolise",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "metropolise",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "metropolisi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "metropolisu",
"source": "declension",
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"locative",
"singular"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"locative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "metropolisom",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "metropolisima",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"plural"
]
}
],
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}
],
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"10": "metropolisi",
"11": "metropolisu",
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"3": "metropolisa",
"4": "metropolisa",
"5": "metropolisu",
"6": "metropolisima",
"7": "metropolis",
"8": "metropolise",
"9": "metropolise"
},
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}
],
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"lang_code": "sh",
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"categories": [
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"Pages with entries",
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"Serbo-Croatian nouns"
],
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],
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[
"metropolis",
"metropolis#English"
]
]
}
],
"word": "metropolis"
}
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