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    metropolis查询结果如下:

    音标:[mə'trɑːpəlɪs]
    名词复数:Metropolises 词频:低频词
    基本释义/说明:n.大都市;重要中心;首府()
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    名词
    首都;首府;大都会
    a cosmopolitan metropolis
    世界性的大都市.
    Chicago is a busy metropolis.
    芝加哥是个繁忙的大都市.
    the Metropolis (m metropolis)
    [英]伦敦(全市).
    (商业;艺术等的)中心;中心地
    a metropolis of commerce
    商业中心.
    a lumber metropolis
    木材业中心.
    (殖民地的)宗主国(宗主城市)
    -扩展释义
    |noun|
    1. 大都市;首都;首府[the S]2.(工商业等的)中心都市,中心[C]
    【书名】
    都市风流
    物主限定词&|noun|&|【地质学】|
    大都会
    Paris is a super-refined metropolis.
    巴黎是个极其高雅的大都会
    【石油】
    主要都市
    词性不明
    重要中心
    -同义词和反义词

    词性:|noun|

    -metropolis的不同词性形态

    形容词 变体/同根词

    Metropolitan.
    Focusing on a metropolis, or large city.
    (Christianity) Pertaining to the see or province of a metropolitan. [from 15th c.] || Of, or pertaining to, a metropolis or other large urban settlement. [from 16th c.]
    After a number of years working and traveling around the world, life as a metropolitan professional took me by surprise.

    名词 变体/同根词

    metropolis的(罕见)复数形式
    We have already mentioned that some colonies eventually became metropoleis.
    metropolis的复数形式
    The winning video has been created in co-operation with UPM, Metropolia, Faster Horse advertising agency and Imagemaker production company.
    metrocentric attitudes and practices
    The quality or state of being metropolitan.
    This attitude condemns Sydney, with all its potential for stylish metropolitanism, to dozy provincialism.
    Mrs. Gammit felt abashed at her ignorance, but gratified, at the same time, by the reproach of metropolitanism.
    The film uses homosexuality to examine a rapidly changing society within Russia, where modernity and metropolitanism are colliding with traditional culture.
    The see of a metropolitan bishop.
    But then came the official denial from the Varna metropolitanate that Kiril had resigned from the Synod.
    Dioceses of Subotica and Zrenjanin entered the newly formed Metropolitanate of Belgrade.

    动词 变体/同根词

    metropolitanize的异体字
    (transitive) To make metropolitan; to adapt to the norms of a metropolis.
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