🇬🇧🇨🇳 megalopolis - 特大都市 : English Lesson

Meaning of "megalopolis" ("特大都市"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

A megalopolis is an enormous city area made up of many cities and towns that have grown together. Instead of one small city with space and fields around it, a megalopolis is like a giant carpet of buildings, roads, and houses that stretches for a very long distance. Lots and lots of people live there, there are huge highways and trains, and it’s usually busy all day and all night. Some parts may be for work, some for homes, and some for fun, but they are all connected into one giant urban area called a megalopolis.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

My video game city became such a megalopolis that even the tiny virtual people complained about traffic.

Our teacher said a megalopolis is a super big city, so I asked if my closet of toys counts, because it’s definitely overcrowded.

My baby cousin thinks the toy box is a megalopolis where stuffed animals rule the world.

If homework piles up any higher, it will be a paper megalopolis with a population of one very unhappy student.

In real life, some areas like the stretch from Boston to Washington, D.C. form a true megalopolis, with so many connected cities that from an airplane it almost looks like one endless city of lights.

At dawn, Ana stepped from the quiet town into the megalopolis, where trains stitched suburbs into light. The megalopolis swallowed fields and rivers, a long line of windows and footsteps. She watched the megalopolis breathe—cars like moving stars—and felt small, then brave. The megalopolis echoed with calls. In the megalopolis she found her sister, and they cried, laughing.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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