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megalopolis
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a very large urban complex (usually involving several cities and towns)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1832, from comb. form of Greek megas (genitive megalou ) "great" (see mickle ) + polis "city" (see polis ). The word was used in classical times as an epithet of great cities (Athens, Syracuse, Alexandria), and it also was the name of a former city in Arcadi ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Megalopolis \Meg`a*lop"o*lis\ (m[e^]g`[.a]*l[o^]p"[-o]*l[i^]s), n. [NL., fr. Gr. megalo`polis; me`gas, mega`lh, great + po`lis city.] A chief city; a metropolis. [R.]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A megalopolis (sometimes called a megapolis ; also megaregion, or supercity ) is typically defined as a chain of roughly adjacent metropolitan areas . The term was used by Patrick Geddes in his 1915 book Cities in Evolution , by Oswald Spengler in his 1918 ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A large conurbation, where two or more large cities have sprawled outward to meet, forming something larger than a metropolis; a megacity.
Usage examples of megalopolis.
Shenzhen was a megalopolis in a hurry, a boom town city going at a furious pace twenty-four hours a day, running at full blast on the high octane fuel that was the most profane of words in all of Communist China: capitalism.
Used to the megalopolis of Los Angeles, Rudy found the city very small, but there had been a grandeur to it, a walled unity with which the sprawling, featureless towns of his own experience could not compare.
Texas countryside, were the shining spokes of the solar farms, alternating with green strips of cropland growing chimeric soycorn and peanuts and wingbeans food and energy for the megalopolis and its satellite cities.
In urban areas, like the Houston-Dallasworth megalopolis, it goes up to ten thousand.
By the beginning of the 25th century the seat of the Confederation government had grown from a small city of 100,000 into a megalopolis of more than ten million people occupying the entire 1,200 square miles of what had been Cass County, North Dakota.
Everywhere beyond, the ancient city stretched away, a megalopolis of vanished giants, dead since dinosaurs had ruled the far-off Earth.
Someday this would be all part of a Eureka-Crescent City-Vineland megalopolis, but for now the primary sea coast, forest, riverbanks and bay were still not much different from what early visitors in Spanish and Russian ships had seen.
Amid this megalopolis of constructs, Piper found a particular network address and pushed her signal inside.
Nobody got into the megalopolis nowadays without a full scope and NAC.
Twelve hundred odd miles to the west was the megalopolis of Los Angeles, his home.
Soho crowd, to his humble but lucrative sinecure in the Megalopolis Galleria, where he set up shop after that vast shopping mall elected a governor and declared statehood.
Flint looked from his partner to the enormous megalopolis shimmering in the distance, and then back.
The following week he began a systematic tour of the local retreats, those incredibly valuable pieces of real estate that extended from the westernmost portions of the Chicago megalopolis halfway to the Mississippi River.
I stood by the viewall, looking out across megalopolis, and it was tawdry.
Dry, scrub desert seems an unlikely place for a future megalopolis to sprout -- ignoring Los Angeles.