<entry id="2197422" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>1104650</ent_seq>
<r_ele>
<reb>ビガロポリス</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<misc>&rare;</misc>
<lsource ls_wasei="y">bigalopolis</lsource>
<gloss>gigalopolis</gloss>
<gloss>giant megalopolis</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2022-07-19 22:25:06" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Opencooper</upd_name>
<upd_detl>Not in English dictionaries. My refs don't explicitly call it wasei. The English term gets a few hits in publications from China.</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>* daijr: メガロポリスよりもさらに巨大な都市。超巨大都市。
* 三省堂 現代国語辞典・コンサイス外来語辞典: ［bigalopolis＜big+megalopolis (巨大都市）］巨大都市の呼称の 1つ．メガロポリスよりも大きい巨大都市．
* 旺文社 現代カタカナ語辞典: 〔bigalopolis〕メガロポリス(巨大都市)より大きい超巨大都市。</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -9 +9 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;bigalopolis&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;bigalopolis (supercity larger than a megalopolis)&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-07-19 23:41:53" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Looks like the name of a song.  Move or delete?</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>https://open.spotify.com/track/3jQE5iqWC1A1jh6vaLZC06
0 n-grams. Very little WWW mention apart from here.</upd_refs>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-07-20 00:21:32" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Opencooper</upd_name>
<upd_detl>It's in a bunch of sources. Worth keeping for parity with them at least.</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>also imidas: https://imidas.jp/katakana/detail/Z-27-2-0195.html</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -8,0 +9 @@
+&lt;misc&gt;&amp;obsc;&lt;/misc&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-07-20 01:22:41" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>OK</upd_detl>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-07-20 01:27:06" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Marcus Richert</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Does the word "bigalopolis" even make sense in English? "Big-" doesn't at all sound like it's bigger than "mega-".</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cities-may-triple-in-size-by-2030/
Gigalopolises: Urban Land Area May Triple by 2030
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cities-as-solutions-to-climate-change/
Nevertheless, the megalopolis—or even gigalopolis—is likely to be the place where efforts to combat climate change, and adapt to it, actually happen.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/casa/publications/2004/nov/casa-working-paper-85
Hierarchy is implicit in the very term city. Cities grow from hamlets and villages into small towns and thence into larger forms such as 'metropolis', 'megalopolis' and world cities which are 'gigalopolis'.</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -10 +10,3 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;bigalopolis (supercity larger than a megalopolis)&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;lsource ls_wasei="y"&gt;bigalopolis&lt;/lsource&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;gigalopolis&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;giant megalopolis&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-07-20 04:16:27" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>