megalopoleis
/mɛ.ɡæˈlɒ.pɒ.lɛɪz/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "Beautiful, thriving cities were now seen as soulless megalopoleis."
- "Megalopolis³ (pl. Megalopoleis) was labelled “obsolete” in major English-language dictionaries of less than half a century ago⁴."
- "Other megalopoleis, not yet so large, extend from San Jose through the San Francisco Bay Area to Richmond and Marin County; from San Diego through Los Angeles to Bakersfield; from Milwaukee through Chicago, Gary, South Bend, across southern Michigan to Detroit…"
- "On the other hand, large megalopoleis, such as imperial Constantinople or Rome which drew on resources from broad sections of the Mediterranean, cannot easily be reduced to an expression of the same fundamental ecological mechanism that the authors see governing the majority of infinitely smaller settlements."