metropolis - SAT Word

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This word "metropolis" often comes up in the SAT. Of the choices below which is the closest in meaning?
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Detailed description and alternate definitions of the word 'metropolis':
  A major city, especially the chief city of a country or region.
  The chief see of a metropolitan bishop.
  The mother city or country of an overseas colony, especially in ancient Greece.
  A city or an urban area regarded as the center of a specific activity.

Synonyms of word 'metropolis' :
 city
 city
 urban center


Usage of the word 'metropolis' in Sentences :
  An Elder of the Kirk having found a little boy and his sister playing marbles on Sunday, put his reproof in this form, not a judicious one for a ...
  metropolis of the industrial age.
  metropolis after the serenity of the hill trails.
  A coral reef is a teeming metropolis built upon the living skeletons of tiny soft polyps.
  Music from the hybrid soul of a 21st century metropolis.
  Vancouver is one of the most multicultural metropolises of the Pacific Rim.
  metropolis of 14 million people.
  Valencia Further along the coast from the Costa Blanca lies Spain's largest city, the cosmopolitan metropolis of Valencia.
  So, in the meantime, enjoy these photographs of the buzzing metropolis which is, erm, Charlton Village.
  The Forbidden City, once home to China's imperial rulers, now the center of a fast growing metropolis.
  Salt River would be made navigable; Florida would become a metropolis.

Usage of the word 'metropolis' in popular media :

Wall Street Journal   —
  to build a metropolis, players must invest in city improvements..... read more ››




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