megapolitan en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /mɛɡəˈpɒlɪtən/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /mɛɡəˈpɑlɪtən/ (General-American)
- (Southern-England) audio
- /-lə-/ (General-American)
Etymology
From megapolis + -itan; compare megalopolitan.
Meanings
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Of or pertaining to a megapolis (“a very large city or urban complex”).
The nation's southernmost transcontinental Interstate, I-10, serves as the Gulf Coast's "Main Street." Every major city in the megapolitan area lies along its path. […] Megapolitan Areas are integrated networks of metropolitan and micropolitan areas.
2006, Robert E. Lang, “Measuring Katrina’s Impact on the Gulf Megapolitan Area”, in Eugenie L. Birch, Susan M. Wachter, editors, Rebuilding Urban Places after Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina, Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, part II (Returning Urban Places to Economic Viability), page 89:In the US there are 10 megapolitan regions, defined as clustered networks of metropolitan regions that either have populations of more than 10 million or will exceed that number, on current growth projections, by 2010.
2008, Lisa Benton-Short, John Rennie Short, “Contemporary Urbanization and Environmental Dynamics”, in Cities and Nature (Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City), Abingdon, Oxon.; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, part I (The Urban Environment in History), page 71:Of the intellectual nature of Bosville, mention has been made already. It is, as we have seen, […] megapolitan, metropolitan, cosmopolitan,[…].
1859 September, “Little Peddlington; otherwise Called Bosville”, in Timothy Flint, editor, The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, volume LIV, number 3 (number 633 overall), New York, N.Y.: John A. Gray, […]; London: John Chapman, […], →OCLC, page 299:Is the school culture, that child of nineteenth-century Protestant laissez faire and rural America, of an emerging and industrial and urban society and of an economy of scarcity, relevant to the multi-ethnic, multi-racial, and multi-religious post-industrial society of today, with its metropolitan and megapolitan settlement pattern and its economy of affluence-with-poverty? Which culture does today's child really need to know?
1974 April, Herbert J. Gans, “Mass Communications as an Educational Institution”, in Peter L. Klinge, editor, American Education in the Electric Age: New Perspectives on Media and Learning, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Educational Technology Publications, →ISBN, page 76:The first step in creating megapolitan areas involved producing a map of the micropolitan and metropolitan counties. To be considered as a candidate for megapolitan inclusion, an area must be a string of contiguous metropolitan and micropolitan counties, uninterrupted by non-metropolitan counties.
2009, Robert E. Lang, Arthur C. Nelson, “Megapolitan America: Defining and Applying a New Geography”, in Catherine L. Ross, editor, Megaregions: Planning for Global Competitiveness, Washington, D.C.: Island Press, →ISBN, page 116:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more megapolitan | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most megapolitan | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |