Metropolis and Suburb

Opposite meaning words

Metropolis noun - A thickly settled, highly populated area.

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Suburb is an antonym for metropolis.

Suburb noun - A residential district located on the outskirts of a city.

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Metropolis is an antonym for suburb.

Nearby Words: suburban, suburbia

full	full metropolis	full suburb
typical	typical metropolis	typical suburb
average	average metropolis	average suburb
entire	entire metropolis	entire suburb
Other adjectives: real, large, big, little, major, abandoned, former, fictional, modern, unnamed, southern, industrial.

City of Heroes has Croatoa, a suburb of the titular Rhode Island metropolis which is slowly being pulled into the spirit world.

Source: Lovecraft Country
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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