Metropolis
Pronunciation : Me*trop"o*lis
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [L. metropolis, Gr. Mother, and Police.]
Definition : 1. The mother city; the chief city of a kingdom, state, or country. [Edinburgh] gray metropolis of the North. Tennyson.
2. (Eccl.)
Defn: The seat, or see, of the metropolitan, or highest church dignitary. The great metropolis and see of Rome. Shak.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913