metropolize

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To urbanize; to center or focus on the city.
    — Thus, the major issue in current communication policy revolves around the tendency of new communications technologies to centralize and metropolize sources of information.
  2. To develop into a city or urban area.
    — Spoon River, like towns in all parts of the country, has become a standardized community, a "metropolized" town.
  3. To visit the city. obsolete
    — Where is that real Real* Devil, in, or out of London, — Jo. Parkes ? If he metropolizes, tell him he ought to come hither.

词形变化

metropolizes present,singular,third-person metropolizing participle,present metropolized participle,past metropolized past

词源

From metropolis + -ize.
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