| 单词 | metropole |
| 释义 | metropole|ˈmɛtrəpəʊl|
[a. OF. metropole, ad. L. mētropolis: see metropolis.]
1. A chief town; = metropolis.
13..S. Erkenwolde 26 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 266 Londone..þe metropol & þe mayster-tone. 1586J. Hooker Hist. Irel. in Holinshed II. 4/1 Bath, which was the metropole of Summersetshire. Ibid. 151/2 Dublin..being the metropole and chiefe citie of the whole land. 1685Stillingfl. Orig. Brit. iv. 196 Those Cities which had the Title of Augusta conferred upon them, were..chief Metropoles of the Provinces.
1937A. Huxley Let. 3 June (1969) 422 Our nearest railway is Santa Fe, 70 miles away, and our metropole is Denver at 350 miles. 1970Financial Times 23 Mar. 19/1 What Algeria lacked could easily come from the metropole. 1973Caribbean Contact Jan. 10/2 The ill-defined..countries of the Caribbean Sea are becoming states in their own right, and are slowly..severing their traditional ties with their respective European metropoles.
2. Eccl. The see of a metropolitan; = metropolis 1.
1862Neale Ess. Liturgiol. (1867) 300 That was a remarkable erection of metropoles which occurred just before the outbreak. 1888Ch. Times 27 Apr. 364/3 York was designated as a metropole by St. Gregory, and did exercise some undefined jurisdiction over other sees in the North.
3. A luxury hotel.
1890W. Booth In Darkest Eng. ii. vi. 209 A superior lodging-house, a sort of poor man's Metropole. 1925E. Sitwell Troy Park 74 That child is the small wicked ghost Of Metropoles and oyster bars. |
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