metropole
/ˈmɛtɹəpoʊl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.28 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A metropolis; the main city of a country or area.
noun
The parent-state of a colony.
Example Sentences
- "The first Antifas functioned as platforms to organize against far-right groups like the National Democratic Party (NPD) in an autonomist movement still numbering in the tens of thousands of active members and capable of occupying entire city blocks in some West German metropoles."
- "Though the metropole remained confident in its Westminster ways, its newly independent colonies imposed constitutional constraints on the powers of parliament."
- "As Europe's population growth and commercial activity slowed down after 1620, its thirst for Spanish-American silver slackened: metropole and colony were drifting apart."
Etymology
From Middle English metropol, from Middle French metropole (“town with bishop's seat”), from Latin mētropolis. Doublet of metropolis.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: metropol, metropole, mētropolis
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈmɛtɹəpoʊl/
- British English: /ˈmɛtɹəpəʊl/