Look up: megalopolis

1. Megalopolis
   The ‘city of all cities`, a term coined in ancient Greece to refer to a city-state that was planned to be the envy of all civilizations, but used in modern times to refer to very large – or overlarge – conurbations.
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2. megalopolis
   [n] - a very large urban complex (usually involving several cities and towns)
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3. Megalopolis
   a vast urban region containing a number of cities and their surrounding suburbs
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4. Megalopolis
   Ancient city in Arcadia. Megalopolis was founded on the advice of the Theban general Epaminondas after his heavy defeat of the Spartans at the Battle of Leuctra 371 BC. The inhabitants of 38...
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5. megalopolis
   a vast urban area formed by the expansion and coalescence of adjoining conurbations; For the EEC the European Megalopolis extends from the Ruhr in Germany to the Manchester/Liverpool complex in the UK Category: Management in the public and private sector
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6. Megalopolis
   Meg`a·lop'o·lis (-lŏp'o*lĭs) noun [ New Latin , from Greek megalo`polis ; me`gas , mega`lh , great + po`lis city.] A chief city; a metropolis. [ R.]
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7. megalopolis
   noun a very large urban complex (usually involving several cities and towns)
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8. Megalopolis
   • (n.) A chief city; a metropolis.
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9. megalopolis
   (from the article `urbanization`) One result of continued economic development and population growth could be the creation, in the next 100 years, of megalopolises—concentrations of ... French geographer who introduced the concept and term megalopolis for large urban configurations.[5 related articles]
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10. Megalopolis
    ancient and modern settlement, nomós (department) of Arkadhía, of the Peloponnese, Greece, just northwest of which lay an ancient city of the same ...
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11. megalopolis
    megalopolis 1. Used (frequently with a capital letter) as a designation of a very large city or its way of life. 2. The practice of building large cities. 3. A region made up of several large cities and their surrounding areas in sufficient proximity to be considered a single urban complex.
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12. megalopolis
    megalopolis (megulop'lis) [Gr.,=great city], a group of densely populated metropolitan areas that combine to form an urban complex. It was first used in its modern sense by Jean Gottman (1957) to describe the huge urban area along the eastern seaboard of the United States from Boston to Washingt...
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13. Megalopolis
    (city type) A `megalopolis` (sometimes called a `megapolis` or `megaregion`) is typically defined as a chain of roughly adjacent metropolitan areas. The term was used by Lewis Mumford in his 1938 book, The Culture of Cities, which described it as the first stage in urban overdevelopmen...
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