metroplex
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Blend of metropolitan + complex, originally coined as a marketing term for the Dallas–Fort Worth conurbation.
Noun[edit]
metroplex (plural metroplexes)
- (US, urban studies) A large metropolitan area containing several cities and their suburbs.
- 1984, Jack Meltzer, Metropolis to Metroplex: The Social and Spatial Planning of Cities, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 14:
- The collection of small urban centers and the multinucleated metropolitan subcenters is the twenty-first-century metroplex that provides citizens with opportunities to develop different lifestyles in new environmental settings. In the metroplex the new arrivals do not have to abandon their careers or interests.