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"other", "name": "English terms suffixed with -polis", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "65 8 19 8", "kind": "other", "langcode": "en", "name": "Colonialism", "orig": "en:Colonialism", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "50 10 29 11", "kind": "place", "langcode": "en", "name": "Places", "orig": "en:Places", "parents": [ "Names", "All topics", "Proper nouns", "Terms by semantic function", "Fundamental", "Nouns", "Lemmas" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "54 8 27 11", "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "Urban studies", "orig": "en:Urban studies", "parents": [ "Applied sciences", "Social sciences", "Sciences", "Society", "All topics", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2010, James Mahoney, Colonialism and Postcolonial Development: Spanish America in Comparative Perspective", "text": "Colonies certainly did not become \"clones\" of their metropolises, but it is equally false that their colonial heritages were not influenced by the organization of the metropolises.", "type": "quotation" } ], "glosses": [ "The mother (founding) polis (city state) of a colony." ], "id": "en-metropolis-en-noun-8clbFJaN", "links": [ [ "history", "history" ], [ "Ancient Greece", "Ancient Greece" ], [ "polis", "polis" ], [ "colony", "colony" ] ], "qualifier": "especially Ancient Greece", "raw_glosses": [ "(history, especially Ancient Greece) The mother (founding) polis (city state) of a colony." ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "mother city" }, { "word": "metropole" } ], "topics": [ "history", "human-sciences", "sciences" ], "translations": [ { "_dis1": "69 26 2 3", "code": "sq", "lang": "Albanian", "sense": "colony’s mother city", "word": "metropol" }, { "_dis1": "69 26 2 3", "code": "ar", "lang": "Arabic", "roman": "ḥāḍira", "sense": "colony’s mother city", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "حَاضِرَة" }, { "_dis1": "69 26 2 3", "code": "be", "lang": "Belarusian", "roman": "mjetrapólija", "sense": "colony’s mother city", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "метрапо́лія" }, { "_dis1": "69 26 2 3", "code": "be", "lang": "Belarusian", "roman": "metrapólija", "sense": "colony’s mother city", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "мэтрапо́лiя" }, { "_dis1": "69 26 2 3", "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "metropólija", "sense": "colony’s mother city", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "метропо́лия" }, { "_dis1": "69 26 2 3", "code": "ca", "lang": "Catalan", "sense": "colony’s mother city", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "metròpolis" }, { "_dis1": "69 26 2 3", "code": "ca", "lang": "Catalan", "sense": "colony’s mother city", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "metròpoli" }, { "_dis1": "69 26 2 3", "code": "da", "lang": "Danish", "sense": "colony’s mother city", "tags": [ "common-gender" ], "word": "moderby" }, { "_dis1": "69 26 2 3", "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "colony’s mother city", "word": "metropolis" }, { "_dis1": "69 26 2 3", "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "colony’s mother city", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "metropool" }, { "_dis1": "69 26 2 3", "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "colony’s mother city", "word": "moederstad" }, { "_dis1": "69 26 2 3", "code": "eo", "lang": "Esperanto", "sense": "colony’s mother city", "word": "metropolo" }, { "_dis1": "69 26 2 3", "code": "et", "lang": "Estonian", "sense": "colony’s mother city", "word": "metropol" }, { "_dis1": "69 26 2 3", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "colony’s mother city", "word": "metropolis" }, { "_dis1": "69 26 2 3", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "colony’s mother city", "word": "emämaa" }, { "_dis1": "69 26 2 3", "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "colony’s mother city", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "métropole" }, { "_dis1": "69 26 2 3", "code": "ka", "lang": "Georgian", "roman": "meṭroṗolia", "sense": "colony’s mother city", "word": "მეტროპოლია" }, { "_dis1": "69 26 2 3", "code": "el", "lang": "Greek", "roman": "mitrópoli", "sense": "colony’s mother city", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "μητρόπολη" }, { "_dis1": "69 26 2 3", "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "colony’s mother city", "word": "metropolisz" }, { "_dis1": "69 26 2 3", "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "colony’s mother city", "word": "anyaország" }, { "_dis1": "69 26 2 3", "code": "ga", "lang": "Irish", "sense": "colony’s mother city", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "ceannchathair" }, { "_dis1": "69 26 2 3", "code": "km", "lang": "Khmer", "roman": "miətokrong", "sense": "colony’s mother city", "word": "មាតុក្រុង" }, { "_dis1": "69 26 2 3", "code": "km", "lang": "Khmer", "roman": "tiikrongmei", "sense": "colony’s mother city", "word": "ទីក្រុងមេ" }, { "_dis1": "69 26 2 3", "code": "kmr", "lang": "Northern Kurdish", "sense": "colony’s mother city", "word": "metropol" }, { "_dis1": "69 26 2 3", "code": "la", "lang": "Latin", "sense": "colony’s mother city", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "metropolis" }, { "_dis1": "69 26 2 3", "code": "lv", "lang": "Latvian", "sense": "colony’s mother city", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "metropole" }, { "_dis1": "69 26 2 3", "code": "mk", "lang": "Macedonian", "roman": "metropola", "sense": "colony’s mother city", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "метропола" }, { "_dis1": "69 26 2 3", "code": "nb", "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål", "sense": "colony’s mother city", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "metropol" }, { "_dis1": "69 26 2 3", "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "colony’s mother city", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "metropolia" }, { "_dis1": "69 26 2 3", "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "colony’s mother city", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "metrópole" }, { "_dis1": "69 26 2 3", "code": "ro", "lang": "Romanian", "sense": "colony’s mother city", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "metropolă" }, { "_dis1": "69 26 2 3", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "stolíca", "sense": "colony’s mother city", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "столи́ца" }, { "_dis1": "69 26 2 3", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "metropólija", "sense": "colony’s mother city", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "метропо́лия" }, { "_dis1": "69 26 2 3", "code": "sh", "lang": "Serbo-Croatian", "sense": "colony’s mother city", "tags": [ "Cyrillic", "feminine" ], "word": "метро̀пола" }, { "_dis1": "69 26 2 3", "code": "sh", "lang": "Serbo-Croatian", "sense": "colony’s mother city", "tags": [ "Roman", "feminine" ], "word": "metròpola" }, { "_dis1": "69 26 2 3", "code": "tl", "lang": "Tagalog", "sense": "colony’s mother city", "word": "metropoli" }, { "_dis1": "69 26 2 3", "code": "tr", "lang": "Turkish", "sense": "colony’s mother city", "word": "metropol" }, { "_dis1": "69 26 2 3", "code": "uk", "lang": "Ukrainian", "roman": "metropólija", "sense": "colony’s mother city", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "метропо́лія" }, { "_dis1": "69 26 2 3", "code": "vo", "lang": "Volapük", "sense": "colony’s mother city", "word": "metropoel" } ] }, { "categories": [], "examples": [ { "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": "quotation" }, { "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": "quotation" }, { "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": "quotation" }, { "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": "quotation" } ], "glosses": [ "A large, busy city, especially as the main city in an area or country or as distinguished from surrounding rural areas." ], "id": "en-metropolis-en-noun-7TbC~Rqi", "translations": [ { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "sq", "lang": "Albanian", "sense": "large, busy city", "word": "metropol" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "be", "lang": "Belarusian", "roman": "mjehapólis", "sense": "large, busy city", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "мегапо́ліс" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "metrópolis", "sense": "large, busy city", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "метро́полис" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "megapólis", "sense": "large, busy city", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "мегапо́лис" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "ca", "lang": "Catalan", "sense": "large, busy city", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "metròpolis" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "ca", "lang": "Catalan", "sense": "large, busy city", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "metròpoli" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "sense": "large, busy city", "word": "大都會" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "dàdūhuì", "sense": "large, busy city", "word": "大都会" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "dàchéngshì", "sense": "large, busy city", "word": "大城市" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "dūshì", "sense": "large, busy city", "word": "都市" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "dàdūshì", "sense": "large, busy city", "word": "大都市" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "large, busy city", "tags": [ "neuter" ], "word": "velkoměsto" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "da", "lang": "Danish", "sense": "large, busy city", "tags": [ "common-gender" ], "word": "metropol" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "da", "lang": "Danish", "sense": "large, busy city", "tags": [ "common-gender" ], "word": "storby" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "large, busy city", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "metropool" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "large, busy city", "word": "grootstad" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "large, busy city", "word": "wereldstad" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "eo", "lang": "Esperanto", "sense": "large, busy city", "word": "urbego" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "et", "lang": "Estonian", "sense": "large, busy city", "word": "suurlinn" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "large, busy city", "word": "metropoli" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "large, busy city", "word": "suurkaupunki" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "large, busy city", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "métropole" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "large, busy city", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "Metropole" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "large, busy city", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "Weltstadt" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "el", "lang": "Greek", "roman": "mitrópoli", "sense": "large, busy city", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "μητρόπολη" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "he", "lang": "Hebrew", "roman": "metropolín", "sense": "large, busy city", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "מֶטְרוֹפּוֹלִין" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "large, busy city", "word": "metropolisz" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "large, busy city", "word": "nagyváros" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "is", "lang": "Icelandic", "sense": "large, busy city", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "stórborg" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "ga", "lang": "Irish", "sense": "large, busy city", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "ceannchathair" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "large, busy city", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "metropoli" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "alt": "だいとし", "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "daitoshi", "sense": "large, busy city", "word": "大都市" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "alt": "だいとかい", "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "daitokai", "sense": "large, busy city", "word": "大都会" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "metoroporisu", "sense": "large, busy city", "word": "メトロポリス" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "km", "lang": "Khmer", "roman": "tiikrongmei", "sense": "large, busy city", "word": "ទីក្រុងមេ" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "km", "lang": "Khmer", "roman": "miətokrong", "sense": "large, busy city", "word": "មាតុក្រុង" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "alt": "大都市", "code": "ko", "lang": "Korean", "roman": "daedosi", "sense": "large, busy city", "word": "대도시" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "ko", "lang": "Korean", "roman": "meteuropolliseu", "sense": "large, busy city", "word": "메트로폴리스" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "kmr", "lang": "Northern Kurdish", "sense": "large, busy city", "word": "metropol" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "lv", "lang": "Latvian", "sense": "large, busy city", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "metropole" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "mk", "lang": "Macedonian", "roman": "metropola", "sense": "large, busy city", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "метропола" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "fa", "lang": "Persian", "roman": "metropol", "sense": "large, busy city", "word": "متروپل" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "fa", "lang": "Persian", "roman": "kalânšahr", "sense": "large, busy city", "word": "کلانشهر" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "large, busy city", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "metropolia" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "large, busy city", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "metrópole" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "ro", "lang": "Romanian", "sense": "large, busy city", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "metropolă" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "megapólis", "sense": "large, busy city", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "мегапо́лис" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "alt": "делово́й, культу́рный", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "centr", "sense": "large, busy city", "tags": [ "masculine", "usually" ], "word": "центр" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "metropólija", "sense": "large, busy city", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "метропо́лия" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "sh", "lang": "Serbo-Croatian", "sense": "large, busy city", "tags": [ "Cyrillic", "masculine" ], "word": "ве̏легра̄д" }, { "_dis1": "25 72 2 1", "code": "sh", "lang": 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"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": 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"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": "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": 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"plural", "vocative" ] }, { "form": "metropolisu", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "locative", "singular" ] }, { "form": "metropolisima", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "locative", "plural" ] }, { "form": "metropolisom", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "instrumental", "singular" ] }, { "form": "metropolisima", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "instrumental", "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "g": "m", "head": "metròpolis" }, "expansion": "metròpolis m (Cyrillic spelling метро̀полис)", "name": "sh-noun" } ], "inflection_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "metropolis", "10": "metropolisi", "11": "metropolisu", "12": "metropolisima", "13": "metropolisom", "14": "metropolisima", "2": "metropolisi", "3": "metropolisa", "4": "metropolisa", "5": "metropolisu", "6": "metropolisima", "7": "metropolis", "8": "metropolise", "9": "metropolise" }, "name": "sh-decl-noun" } ], "lang": "Serbo-Croatian", "lang_code": "sh", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "Serbo-Croatian 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