Usually means: Large urban area, multiple cities.
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  1. megalopolis: Merriam-Webster
  2. megalopolis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. megalopolis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. megalopolis: Collins English Dictionary
  5. megalopolis: Vocabulary.com
  6. Megalopolis, megalopolis: Wordnik
  7. Megalopolis, megalopolis: Wiktionary
  8. megalopolis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. megalopolis: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. megalopolis: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. megalopolis: Dictionary.com
  12. megalopolis: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Megalopolis (city type), Megalopolis (disambiguation), Megalopolis (term), Megalopolis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Megalopolis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. megalopolis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. megalopolis: Rhymezone
  17. Megalopolis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. megalopolis: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. megalopolis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. megalopolis: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. megalopolis: FreeDictionary.org

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  3. megalopolis: Legal dictionary
  4. megalopolis: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. megalopolis: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Population Terms (No longer online)
  2. megalopolis: A Word A Day

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  1. megalopolis: Anthropological Terms

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  1. megalopolis: NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL

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▸ noun:  A large conurbation, where two or more large cities have sprawled outward to meet, forming something larger than a normal metropolis.
▸ noun:  Dated form of Megalopoli. [An ancient city and modern town in Greece located in the southwestern Arcadia prefecture.]

Similar:
megaregion, metropolitan area, metropolitan city, metropolite, metropolitan area network, metro, megamosque, megacentre, megafactory, megaport, more...

Opposite:
rural, countryside, small town

Types:
Tokyo, Mexico City, Mumbai, New York City, Sao Paulo, Shanghai, Delhi, Los Angeles, more...

Phrases:
Northeast megalopolis, Great Lakes megalopolis, Battle of Megalopolis, more...

Adjectives:
modern, northeastern, eastern, great, vast, new, urban, american, huge, japanese, overdeveloped


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Similar:
megaregion, metropolitan area, metropolitan city, metropolite, metropolitan area network, metro, megamosque, megacentre, megafactory, megaport, more...

Opposite:
rural, countryside, small town

Types:
Tokyo, Mexico City, Mumbai, New York City, Sao Paulo, Shanghai, Delhi, Los Angeles, more...

Phrases:
Northeast megalopolis, Great Lakes megalopolis, Battle of Megalopolis, more...

Adjectives:
modern, northeastern, eastern, great, vast, new, urban, american, huge, japanese, overdeveloped



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