teeming metropolis
Bustling urban center
A teeming metropolis is a large city densely packed with people and activity.
The phrase emphasizes urban vitality—crowded streets, constant movement, the hum of commerce and life.
It appears often in travel writing and journalism, sometimes as a cliché: She left her small town for the teeming metropolis of New York.
- bustlingFull of energetic activity
- crowdedFilled beyond comfort
- urbanPertaining to cities
- cityscapeView of urban architecture
- skyscrapersExtremely tall urban buildings
throngs · packed · swarming · concrete jungle · urban sprawl · downtown · city blocks · sprawling · vibrant · hustle · traffic · neon · commuters · sidewalks · street vendors · rush hour · dense · population
population density and settlement size
teeming metropolisghost town
Deserted former inhabited place
small town · rural village · remote village · one-horse town · backwater
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