意味(日本語)

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

語源

• poli- : Gk.polis = city(都市)

意味(英語)

• (noun) A major city, especially the chief city of a country or region: Chicago, the metropolis of the Midwest.
• (noun) A city or an urban area regarded as the center of a specific activity: a great cultural metropolis.
• (noun) Ecclesiastical The chief see of a metropolitan bishop.
• (noun) The mother city or country of an overseas colony, especially in ancient Greece.

例文

• The term metropolis comes from two Greek words meter and polis, or "mother-city."

首都の、主要都市の

語源

• poli- : Gk.polis = city(都市)

巨大都市 ◇Gk.megalo(＝巨大な)

語源

• poli- : Gk.polis = city(都市)