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Megalopoleis vs Megalopolis - What's the difference?

megalopoleis | megalopolis |

As a noun megalopoleis

is .

As a proper noun megalopolis is

an older spelling of megalopoli.

megalopoleis

English

Noun

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  • * 1945 : University of Arizona, The Arizona Quarterly , p18
    • Beautiful, thriving cities were now seen as soulless megalopoleis .
  • * 1963 : Duncker and Humblot, Sociologia Internationalis: “The Greeks had a Word for it” , p170
    • Megalopolis''3 (pl. ''Megalopoleis ) was labelled “obsolete” in major English-language dictionaries of less than half a century ago4.
  • * 1971 : Daniel U. Levine, Education in Metropolitan Areas , p48
    • Other megalopoleis , not yet so large, extend from San Jose through the San Francisco Bay Area to Richmond and Marin County; from San Diego through Los Angeles to Bakersfield; from Milwaukee through Chicago, Gary, South Bend, across southern Michigan to Detroit…
  • * 2005 : Gocha R. Tsetskhladze, Ancient West and East , p391
    • On the other hand, large megalopoleis , such as imperial Constantinople or Rome which drew on resources from broad sections of the Mediterranean, cannot easily be reduced to an expression of the same fundamental ecological mechanism that the authors see governing the majority of infinitely smaller settlements.

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    megalopolis

    English

    Noun

  • A large conurbation, where two or more large cities have sprawled outward to meet, forming something larger than a metropolis; a megacity.
    • The Eastern Seaboard megalopolis extends from New Hampshire to Alexandria, VA.

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