metropolis

• n. メトロポリス；首都；重要な中心地
• n.（メトロポリス）人名；（英）Metropolis

ギリシャ語のmeter「母」、語源はmotherと同じ、polis「都市」、語源はpolice「警察」、policy「政策」と同じ。

metropolis

metropolis: [16] A metropolis is etymologically a ‘mother city’. The word comes via late Latin mētropolis from Greek mētrópolis, a compound formed from métēr ‘mother’ (a distant relative of English mother) and pólis ‘city’ (source of English police, policy, politics, etc).
=> mother, police, policy, politics

metropolis (n.)

"seat of a metropolitan bishop," 1530s, from Late Latin metropolis; see metropolitan. Meaning "chief town or capital city of a province" is first attested 1580s, earlier metropol (late 14c.).

1. He was dazzled by the gaiety and splendour of the metropolis .

大都市の花の世界に彼は目がくらむ.

2.Shanghai is a metropolis in China.

上海は中国の大都市です。

3.This was a great,pleasing metropolis after all.

これは何といってもエキサイティングな大都市です。

4.New York has the sweetest water in the world,for a metropolis .

メトロポリタンにとって、ニューヨークには世界で最も甘い水があると言える。

5.Tessenow decried the metropolis and extolled the peasant virtues.

テソンノフは大都市を中傷し、農民の美徳をたたえた。