metroplex
metroplex noun: a large metropolitan area containing several cities and their suburbs.
Noun
metroplex (plural metroplexes)
- A large metropolitan area containing several cities and their suburbs.
- Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex
- The collection of small urban centers and the multinucleated metropolitan subcenters is the twenty-first-century metroplex that provides citizens with opportunities to develop different lifestyles in new environmental settings. In the metroplex the new arrivals do not have to abandon their careers...1984, Jack Meltzer, Metropolis to Metroplex: The Social and Spatial Planning of Cities, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 14
Forms of metroplex
| plural | metroplexes |
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Origin of metroplex
Blend of metropolitan + complex, originally coined as a marketing term for the Dallas–Fort Worth conurbation.
Words formed from metroplex
Questions about metroplex
- What does metroplex mean?
- Metroplex means a large metropolitan area containing several cities and their suburbs.
- What part of speech is metroplex?
- Metroplex is a noun.
- What is the plural of metroplex?
- The plural of metroplex is metroplexes.
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