Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A minor city or urban area, especially one with a population between 10,000 and 50,000.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Probably on the model of megalopolis : micro– + Greek polis, city; see pelə- in Indo-European roots.]
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Examples
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Boycott patronage and the corporate micropolis: Building the cooperative democracy through economic activism by Maximo Indolos
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However, he also explained how the micropolis was also strangely skewed both by the fact that it was a set piece for a lobbying group for the insurance company and because of the dissonance between the scale of buildings and the scale of texture, such as grass or concrete.
virtualpolitik 2009
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So sayeth Bon Appetit magazine, whose October issue dispenses with the usual Raleigh-Durham tomfoolery and creates in its headline a new micropolis out of the bookends of our metropolitan statistical area.
Bull City Rising 2008
edwardvielmetti commented on the word micropolis
Granbury, Texas, Isn't a Rural Town: It's a 'Micropolis' Census Bureau Adopts Term For Main Street America, And Marketers Take Note Beans, Ribs and Starbucks
WSJ 2004
December 3, 2007