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megalopolis

[ meg-uh-lop-uh-lis ]

noun

  1. a very large city.
  2. an urban region, especially one consisting of several large cities and suburbs that adjoin each other.


megalopolis

/ ˌmɛɡələˈpɒlɪtən; ˌmɛɡəˈlɒpəlɪs /

noun

  1. an urban complex, usually comprising several large towns
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

megalopolis

  1. A vast stretch of developed industrial urban area, such as the East Coast of the United States from Boston to Washington, D.C. , or the Ruhr Valley in Germany . Megalopolis is from Greek words meaning “great city.”
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Derived Forms

  • megalopolitan, adjectivenoun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of megalopolis1

First recorded in 1825–35; megalo- + polis
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Word History and Origins

Origin of megalopolis1

C20: megalo- + Greek polis city
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Example Sentences

Studying in Paris for three years refined her technique, but the artist’s style was honed by her home city: a raw, industrial, violent, creative and unpredictable megalopolis during her formative years.

Navarrete and Arroyo knew that success wasn’t guaranteed even in a city with a long Spanish-language literary tradition, a megalopolis where the U.S.

L.A., the new horizontal city promoted as a model for the future, couldn’t be more different as a place than the old vertical megalopolis across the Hudson River, representing the culmination of the past.

That said, it’s home to several iconic ice playgrounds that are driving distance from the megalopolises of Los Angeles and San Francisco.

That sort of thinking led to the segregated, stratified megalopolis of today, which seems perpetually on the precipice of collapsing on itself.

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