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Definitions of metropolis on the Web:

a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts; “Ancient Troy was a great city”
http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn

people living in a large densely populated municipality; “the city voted for Republicans in 1994”
http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn

The capital of a country.
http://www.dreamghar.com/mdic.html

A distinguished Los Alamos scientist whose name is associated with a particular importance sampling (optimized choice of points) approach to Monte Carlo methods aimed at statistical physics problems.
http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/sccs757/node10.html

One or more central cities and their surrounding suburbs that dominate the economic and cultural life of a region.
http://www.sociologyinourtimes_2nded.nelson.com/glossary4.html

The central city of a country or region or area, whether large or small (from the Greek for “mother city”).
http://www.retta.org/study/word-day.htm

largest town or urban agglomeration in a region or country