metropolitanism (metropolitanizm)

The state of being a metropolis or great city. The return of New York to oil-light illumination is not very encouraging to braggers of our metropolitanism. Electric Rev., XV. ix. 4. metropolitanize (met-ro-pol'i-tan-iz), v. t.; pret. and pp. metropolitan i zed, ppr. metropolitan i zing. [ metropolitan + -ize.] To impart the character of a metropolis to; render metropolitan. The intermediate space [between Philadelphia and New York] must be metropolitan i zed . Philadelphia Pre , Jan. 5, 1870.