metropolis

noun

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

   “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.”

2. 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.”

   “[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.”

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

   “They call me the Hiphopopotamus / Flows that glow like phosphorous / Popping off the top of this esophagus / Rocking this metropolis”

3. The see of a metropolitan bishop, ranking above its suffragan diocesan bishops.
4. A generic focus in the distribution of plants or animals.

name

1. A city, the county seat of Massac County, Illinois, United States.
2. A ghost town in Elko County, Nevada, United States.
3. A classical city site in Anatolia (Turkey).
4. A fictional city serving as the primary setting for the Superman franchise, published by DC Comics.

   “My city need a hero, so I treat it like Metropolis / And it's a few bad Lois Lanes I can't name”

5. Nickname for New York City: a major city in New York, United States.
6. (England, dated)Nickname for London: the capital city of the United Kingdom; the capital city of England, within Greater London.

   “The journey from our town to the metropolis, was a journey of about five hours.”