English Dictionary

metropolize

動詞

廃用

To urbanize; to center or focus on the city. / To develop into a city or urban area. / (obsolete) To visit the city.

日本語の意味

都市化する；都市を中心に発展させる / 都市や都会区域へ発展させること / (古い意味) 都市を訪れること

City planners hope to metropolize the riverside district over the next decade to attract businesses and residents.

都市計画担当者たちは、企業や住民を呼び込むために、今後10年で川沿いの地区を都市化することを望んでいる。

意味（1）

To urbanize; to center or focus on the city.

Thus, the major issue in current communication policy revolves around the tendency of new communications technologies to centralize and metropolize sources of information.

意味（2）

To develop into a city or urban area.

Spoon River, like towns in all parts of the country, has become a standardized community, a metropolized town.

意味（3）

(obsolete) To visit the city.

Where is that real Real* Devil, in, or out of London, — Jo. Parkes ? If he metropolizes, tell him he ought to come hither.

metropolizes （ present singular third-person ）

metropolizing （ participle present ）

metropolized （ participle past ）

metropolized （ past ）