metropole
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English metropol, from Middle French metropole (“town with bishop's seat”), from Latin mētropolis. Doublet of metropolis.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]metropole (plural metropoles)
- A metropolis; the main city of a country or area. [from 15th c.]
- The parent-state of a colony. [from 19th c.]
- 2007, Bruce Ackerman, “Meritocracy v. Democracy”, in London Review of Books, 29:5, p. 9:
- Though the metropole remained confident in its Westminster ways, its newly independent colonies imposed constitutional constraints on the powers of parliament.
- 2007, John Darwin, After Tamerlane, Penguin, published 2008, page 63:
- 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.
- (now rare) A bishop's see. [from 19th c.]
Translations
[edit]city — see metropolis
See also
[edit]Latin
[edit]Noun
[edit]mētropole
Latvian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek μητρόπολις (mētrópolis, “mother city”), from μήτηρ (mḗtēr, “mother”) + πόλις (pólis, “city (state)”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]metropole f (5th declension)
- (historical) metropolis (the mother city or country of a colony)
- metropolis (major city)
- Synonym: lielpilsēta
Declension
[edit]Declension of metropole (5th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
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nominative (nominatīvs) | metropole | metropoles |
accusative (akuzatīvs) | metropoli | metropoles |
genitive (ģenitīvs) | metropoles | metropoļu |
dative (datīvs) | metropolei | metropolēm |
instrumental (instrumentālis) | metropoli | metropolēm |
locative (lokatīvs) | metropolē | metropolēs |
vocative (vokatīvs) | metropole | metropoles |
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