<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Any large, busy city.</li><li>The chief, and sometimes capital, city of a country, state, or region.</li><li>A central or principal place, as of some activity: the music metropolis of France.</li><li>The mother city or parent state of a colony, especially of an ancient Greek colony.</li><li>The chief see of an ecclesiastical province.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>