megacity
A very large city; a megalopolis.
Noun
- A very large city; a megalopolis.
- Why, for instance, do water users in a megacity like Lagos not pay an extra charge to get cesspits pumped out? - 2011 July 30, “Cholera and the super-loo”, in The Economist:
- For the past four decades, the world’s fastest developing delta has been the Pearl River Delta (PRD) in the province of Guangdong in southern China. The delta area in the Pearl River has been transformed from a...
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s Proto-Hellenic *mégas Ancient Greek μέγᾰς (mégăs)der. English mega- English city English megacity From mega- + city.