столи́ца — meaning in English
stolitsa
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English meaning
- metropolis noun A very large, busy city, especially the main city of a region or country.
Senses
столи́ца is used for these senses in English:
- capital city A city (or cities) much larger or more important to a country than all others, regardless of the actual seat of government (cf., Moscow and Saint Petersburg regardless of moves of the Russian government; Amsterdam despite the Dutch government having been situated in The Hague since 1588).
- metropolis (history, especially, Ancient Greece) The mother (founding) polis (city state) of a colony.