意味(日本語)

巨大都市 ◇Gk.megalo(＝巨大な)

語源

• poli- : Gk.polis = city(都市)

意味(英語)

• (noun) A very large city.
• (noun) A region made up of several large cities and their surrounding areas in sufficient proximity to be considered a single urban complex.

例文

• We may observe in passing that similar tendencies are at work even in some of the richest countries, where they manifest as a trend toward excessive urbanization, toward "megalopolis", and leave, in the midst of affluence, large pockets of poverty-stricken people, "drop-outs," unemployed and unemployables.

主要都市 ◇Gk.metro＝meter(＝mother 母なる)＋polis(＝city 都市)

語源

• poli- : Gk.polis = city(都市)

首都の、主要都市の

語源

• poli- : Gk.polis = city(都市)