Metropolis
Metropolis noun - A thickly settled, highly populated area.
Small town and metropolis are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Small town" instead a noun "Metropolis".
Small town
Small town noun - A community of people smaller than a town.
Metropolis and small town are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Metropolis" instead a noun phrase "Small town".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- center and metropolis
- center and small town
- centre and metropolis
- centre and small town
- place and metropolis
- place and small town
- community and metropolis
- community and small town
- seat and metropolis
- seat and small town
- village and metropolis
- village and small town
- settlement and metropolis
- settlement and small town
Both terms in one sentence
- The series supposedly takes place in Exeter, New Hampshire, a small town, but it is depicted as a crime-ridden metropolis.
Source: Television Geography -
The city of Duckburg tends to vary in size, from a quirky small town to a large city to (almost exclusively in stories by Marco Rota and the aforementioned Paperinik New Adventures, which is explicitly a different continuity) a bustling metropolis full of skyscrapers.
Source: Depending on the Artist -
Let's add to the confusion by mentioning that there is an actual Raytown, Missouri, which is a suburb of Kansas City, but that the fictional Raytown (a small town unconnected to a metropolis) and real Raytown (suburban bedroom community) are completely different.
Source: Series / Mama's Family
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Small town and Metropolis. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/metropolis/small_town
Metropolis & Small town. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/metropolis/small_town>.
Small town or Metropolis. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/metropolis/small_town.
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