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megacities

megacities is the plural of megacity.

Meaning of megacity

Noun

megacity (plural megacities)

  1. A very large city; a megalopolis, typically one with population over 10 million.
    • Why, for instance, do water users in a megacity like Lagos not pay an extra charge to get cesspits pumped out?2011 July 30, “Cholera and the super-loo”, in The Economist

Questions about megacities

What is megacities the plural of?
Megacities is the plural of megacity.

Words near megacities in the dictionary

  1. megachiropterans
  2. megachurch
  3. megachurches
  4. megacircle
  5. megacircles
  6. megacities
  7. megacity
  8. megaclast
  9. megaclastic
  10. Megaclite
  11. megaclub

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Adapted from Wiktionary: megacities (page history and authors); megacity (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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