metropolis

1. formal (rare, usually fictional city) metropolis
   Film prikazuje mračni metropolis budućnosti. — The film shows a dark metropolis of the future.
   U romanu se opisuje ogroman metropolis sa milionima stanovnika. — The novel describes a huge metropolis with millions of inhabitants.

A rare bookish word, known mainly from titles (the film Metropolis, Superman's city). In Serbia people usually say metropola or velegrad.