Both Uses of
metropolis
in
Arrowsmith
- To Crynssen County, Leopolis with its four thousand people was a metropolis, but in the pinched stillness of the dawn it was a tiny graveyard: Main Street a sandy expanse, the low shops desolate as huts.
Chpt 15metropolis = large city
- Do you think you're going to make strangers believe Wheatsylvania is a metropolis like New York or Jimtown by hanging a dusty rag behind a secondhand tin Lizzie?
Chpt 16 *
Definition:
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(metropolis) city -- especially a large city that is considered important