metropolis
1. [ noun ] (government) a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts
Synonyms: city urban_center
Examples:

"Ancient Troy was a great city"

Related terms: municipality New_York Chicago Dallas Kansas_City Los_Angeles Manchester San_Francisco Philadelphia St._Louis Detroit gateway_to_the_west Baltimore Houston Pittsburgh Cleveland Savannah Newport Memphis Montreal Fort_Worth New_Orleans Cincinnati Seattle Minneapolis Milwaukee Tel_Aviv Liverpool Bombay Palermo Birmingham Acapulco Firenze Bonn Manchester Venice Oxford Munich Las_Vegas Newcastle New_Haven Odessa Birmingham St._Petersburg Merida Cancun Antofagasta Veracruz Ciudad_Juarez Punta_Arenas national_capital Oaxaca Orizaba Valparaiso Jaffa Guadalajara Lanzhou provincial_capital Dunkirk Aquila Naples Tijuana Corinth Argos Delphi Mycenae Sparta Troy Thebes Thessalonika Sodom Gomorrah Nineveh Haifa Kyoto Byzantium Pompeii Herculaneum Messina Bologna San_Juan Shanghai Genoa Milan Bergen Pisa Syracuse Trondheim Canton state_capital Turin Bari Malmo Tangier Lagos Lund Shenyang Padua Gdansk Goteborg Verona Dubrovnik Dresden Tianjin Oran Ufa Volgograd Banff Calgary Leipzig Vancouver Saint_John Weimar Nanking Rostov Hamilton Saskatoon Antwerp Cologne Chungking Hamilton Bruges Natal Braunschweig Rio_de_Janeiro Recife Swansea Alexandria Aswan Giza Memphis Luxor Delhi Calcutta Dusseldorf Madras Salem Bandung Mashhad Shiraz Tabriz Qum Persepolis Edirne Babylon Assur Xian Utica Naha_City Osaka Sao_Paulo Hiroshima Sapporo Kitakyushu Fukuoka Nagasaki Aqaba Mombasa Bordeaux Cannes Nice Orleans Versailles Marseilles Lyon The_Hague Nijmegen Rotterdam Leiden Utrecht Thorshavn Taegu Pusan Tripoli Benghazi Zomba Timbuktu Casablanca Lancaster Aukland Essen Karachi Cebu Cracow Hull Lodz Wroclaw Papeete Mecca Hargeisa Cape_Town Johannesburg Bloemfontein Soweto Gorki Kazan St._Petersburg Perm Frankfurt_on_the_Main Luoyang
2. [ noun ] people living in a large densely populated municipality
Synonyms: city
Examples:

"the city voted for Republicans in 1994"

Related terms: municipality citify
Similar spelling:   metropolitan
  metroptosis