The word "metropolis" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun that refers to a large, important city. For example, "Rome is a metropolis in Italy with a long and storied history".
By the 1860s, garden cemeteries surrounded the metropolis on all sides, both commercial and parochial.
Meanwhile, foul burial places in the centre of the metropolis – whether parish or private – could be closed by order of the secretary of state.
About 80% of Lagos's piped water supplies are thought to be stolen, only 5% of people receive it in their houses, taps are often dry, sanitation is non-existent across much of the metropolis and the hospitals are full of people suffering diarrheal and other water-borne diseases.
Above all there are the glances into a child's metropolis of toy shops and school gates, of hurdy-gurdy men and balloon sellers.
Shanghai was one of the most polyglot cities in the world, a vast metropolis governed by the British and French but otherwise an American zone of influence.
While some may long for the muted sensory world of winter – the hushed din and dulled scents of a blanketed metropolis – the city's signature, ebullient blaring tends to correlate with a welcome uptick in the mercury, summer street garbage be damned.
The stated intent of the legislation was to close church vaults, churchyards and burial grounds within the metropolis.
Tiens − also known as Tianshi − is a multinational company based 10,000 miles away in the Chinese metropolis of Tianjin.
But in the following years, donor governments, banks and a succession of European and American business consortia all went to Africa's largest metropolis with plans to take water to people such as Orogobeni.
The trio look down on the teeming metropolis of 20 million-plus.
These are songs for a deoxygenating little dive bar in a dystopian metropolis, its candles slowly sputtering out.
