Metropolis (noun): the chief or capital city of a country, state, or region.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/metropolis

“Over a lifetime, that adds up to a lot of neighborhoods, the motley construction material of your jerry-built metropolis.”

I encountered this word while reading an artifle that we are discussing in class, “City Limits” by Colson Whitehead. This isnt my first time hearning of the word metropolis but I never fully understood its denotation. With the help of context clues I got the idea that metropolis was just another word for large city. I wasn’t wrong but I wasnt entirely correct. An example of a metropolis would be Manhattan.