megacity
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.98 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A very large city; a megalopolis, typically one with population over 10 million.
Example Sentences
- "Why, for instance, do water users in a megacity like Lagos not pay an extra charge to get cesspits pumped out?"
- "For the past four decades, the world’s fastest developing delta has been the Pearl River Delta (PRD) in the province of Guangdong in southern China. The delta area in the Pearl River has been transformed from a predominantly agricultural landscape into one of the world’s largest metropolitan areas, encompassing such megacities as Guangzhou, Dongguan, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, and Hong Kong (Fig. 1.4)."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s Proto-Hellenic *mégas Ancient Greek μέγᾰς (mégăs)der. English mega- Proto-Indo-European *ḱey-der. Proto-Italic *keiwis Latin ceivis Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Latin ceivitās Late Latin cīvitātem (city) Old French citetbor. Middle English cite English city English megacity From mega- + city.