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# megalopolis

noun

«megalopolis» in the English dictionary: in Wikipedia — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In Wikipedia

Source: the Wikipedia dictionary, from the English Wikipedia articles Mova reads whole. Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). A draft: made natively by Nautilus, one of Mova's workers, from Mova's own counts; not reviewed. Not part of Mova: never in its repository, releases or programs.

### Counted by Mova

51 uses in 10 of the 531 articles of the Wikipedia school's corpus; as a noun in 51 of 51. By the class of the article: agglomeration 9, city 1. Most often with: «area», «large», «city», «united», «region».

### Examples

- The Chicago area is the third-largest metropolitan area in the United States, the fourth-largest in North America (after Mexico City, New York City, and Los Angeles), and the largest in the Great Lakes megalopolis. — [Chicago metropolitan area](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_metropolitan_area), sentence 4 («wiki:Chicago\_metropolitan\_area:4»)
- The Cincinnati metropolitan area is considered part of the Great Lakes megalopolis. — [Cincinnati metropolitan area](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_metropolitan_area), sentence 6 («wiki:Cincinnati\_metropolitan\_area:6»)
- The Great Lakes megalopolis consists of a bi-national group of metropolitan areas in North America largely in the Great Lakes region. — [Great Lakes megalopolis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes_megalopolis), sentence 1 («wiki:Great\_Lakes\_megalopolis:1»)

### Note

Draft: made natively by Nautilus from the Wikipedia school's corpus; the counts and examples are Mova's own, the meaning is the pupils' dictionary's; no sense of this source is written yet.

### Sources

- From Wikipedia, [«Chicago metropolitan area»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_metropolitan_area), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- From Wikipedia, [«Cincinnati metropolitan area»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_metropolitan_area), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- From Wikipedia, [«Great Lakes megalopolis»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes_megalopolis), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- Examples quote Wikipedia; this block is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.