metropole means A metropolis; the main city of a country or area. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 86 out of 100.
metropole is pronounced /ˈmɛtɹəpəʊl/.
Why “metropole” is a great word
METROPOLE — [Noun] The chief city or parent state of a country or region, particularly as the imperial center from which colonies are governed. From Middle English metropol, from Middle French metropole ("town with bishop's seat"), from Late Latin mētropolis, from Ancient Greek μητρόπολις (mētrópolis, "mother city, capital"), from μήτηρ (mḗtēr, "mother") + πόλις (pólis, "city"). Unlike "metropolis" (which emphasizes sheer scale and teeming population) or "colony" (which denotes the distant, controlled territory), "metropole" is the seat of imperial gravity, the source from which authority and culture are meant to flow. It is the gilded map in the imperial office from which red lines radiate to every continent, the polished mahogany of the counting-house desk warmed by a sun that never touches the plantations it finances, and the particular, confident chill of the granite ministry where fates are decided for those who have never felt its winter—a center convinced of its own centrality, even as its influence wanes.
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- A metropolis; the main city of a country or area.“The first Antifas functioned as platforms to organize against far-right groups like the National Democratic Party (NPD) in an autonomist movement still numbering in the tens of thousands of active members and capable of occupying entire city blocks in some West German metropoles.”
- The parent-state of a colony.“Though the metropole remained confident in its Westminster ways, its newly independent colonies imposed constitutional constraints on the powers of parliament.”
- A bishop's see.