Crossword-Solution: MEGALOPOLIS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Megalopolis | n. | A chief city; a metropolis. |
We have 23 clues for the answer “MEGALOPOLIS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Coppola movie that "took 41 years to make" and "might take as long to understand," per Slate's review | 1 answer |
| great city | 1 answer |
| a wide-spreading, thickly-populated urban area | 1 answer |
| Supercity | 1 answer |
| POPULOUS area surrounding one or more cities | 1 answer |
| Huge conurbation | 1 answer |
| Huge city | 1 answer |
| Heavily populated urban complex | 1 answer |
| Group of large towns close together | 1 answer |
| Giant community | 1 answer |
| GREAT city or its way of life | 1 answer |
| "___: a Fable" (anagram of ALOOF PA'S LAME BILGE - sorry, Francis. *I* liked it!) | 1 answer |
| CITY life | 2 answers |
| Group of towns fused into a single urban complex | 2 answers |
| Populous area | 2 answers |
| complexus | 6 answers |
| urban areas | 10 answers |
| chief city | 10 answers |
| Metropolis | 20 answers |
| Capital city. | 32 answers |
| Municipality | 34 answers |
| centre | 49 answers |
| City | 78 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MEGALOPOLIS (5)
Consequently, a new city was built on the banks of the Helisson, called Megalopolis, and peopled by the inhabitants of forty distinct Arcadian townships.
The recent achievements of Thebes might entitle her to aspire to that position: and at all events the alterations which she had produced in the internal state, of Greece, by the establishment of Megalopolis and Messene, seemed to require for their stability the sanction of a Persian rescript.
Sparta, and the whole Peloponnesus, with the exception of Megalopolis and Messenia, seemed inclined to shake off their compulsory alliance.
They were joined by most of the Peloponnesian states; but though they met with some success at first, they were finally defeated with great slaughter by Antipater near Megalopolis.
The spirit of the Achaeans was at this time revived by Philopoemen, one of the few noble characters of the period, and who has been styled by Plutarch "the last of the Greeks." He was a native of Megalopolis in Arcadia, and in 208 was elected Strategus of the league.
Quotes with MEGALOPOLIS (3)
But when the social entity grows large, becomes a megalopolis, a state, a federation, then the governing machine grows remote, impersonal, even inhuman. It takes money from us for purposes we do not seem to sanction; it treats us as abstract statistics; it controls an army; it supports a police force whose function does not always appear to be protective.
The past few months have been the most serene of his adult life. The megalopolis in his mind has quieted to a country road. He does his work, he eats his bread, and he sleeps with the knowledge that today hasn't added to the sum of human misery. For now at least it's peace of a kind he hadn't imagined himself worthy of receiving.
By the time Albie is my age I will be long gone, or, best-case scenario, barricaded into my living module with enough rations to see out my days. But outside, I imagine vast, unregulated factories where workers count themselves lucky to toil through eighteen-hour days for less than a living wage before pulling on their gas masks to fight their way through the unemployed masses who are bartering with the mutated chickens and old tin-cans that they use for currency, those lucky…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Slate.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1999–2024).