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say it: meg-uh-LAH-puh-luhs
megalopolis is a noun meaning "a very large urban complex (usually involving several cities and towns)". It is pronounced /ˌmɛɡəˈlɑpələs/ — meg-uh-LAH-puh-luhs. It carries one recorded sense.
a very large urban complex (usually involving several cities and towns)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for megalopolis come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.