metroplex

English

Etymology

Blend of metropolitan +‎ complex, originally coined as a marketing term for the Dallas–Fort Worth conurbation.

Noun

metroplex (plural metroplexes)

  1. (US, urban studies) A large metropolitan area containing several cities and their suburbs.
    Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex
    • 1984, Jack Meltzer, Metropolis to Metroplex: The Social and Spatial Planning of Cities, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 14:
      The collection of small urban centers and the multinucleated metropolitan subcenters is the twenty-first-century metroplex that provides citizens with opportunities to develop different lifestyles in new environmental settings. In the metroplex the new arrivals do not have to abandon their careers or interests.
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