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Definition
city — especially a large city that is considered important
- Before the bus had run another fifty yards on the highway, its destination would be meaningless, and its point of departure changed from metropolis to junkyard.p. 152.2
metropolis = a large city
There are no more uses of "metropolis" in Fahrenheit 451.
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