METROPOLE meaning: Central city of an empire

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metropole: Merriam-Webster
metropole: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
Metropole, metropole: Wordnik
metropole: Wiktionary
Metropole: Dictionary.com
Metropole (The Lawrence Arms album), Metropole (album), Metropole: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Metropole: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
metropole: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
Metropole (f), Metropole: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
metropole: FreeDictionary.org
Metropole: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (metropole)

▸ noun:  A metropolis; the main city of a country or area.
▸ noun:  The parent-state of a colony.
▸ noun:  (now rare) A bishop's see.

Similar:

metropolis, metropolitan city, Central City, megapolis, supercity, principal city, megacity, metroplex, megatropolis, core city, more...

Opposite:

colony, periphery, provinces, backwater, outskirts

Phrases:

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Adjectives:

former, colonial, imperial, old, european, une, british, french, regional, western, spanish

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