What does "Menopolis" mean?

Question

This was a newspaper anagram I could not solve. When I saw the solution the following day, I referred to a Collins Concise, with no luck. I've never heard of it and I'm curious. Tanx!

Answer 1

I think it was a typo. I have a lot of dictionaries, being a crossword compiler, and cannot find it. What was the cryptic clue?

Answer 2

It's an urban society where men heavily outnumber women. The term seems to apply also to societies where women outnumber men, although I've seen these referred to as "chick cities". It's used in Australia and I'm surprised it's now accepted for use in crosswords!

Example from an Australian newspaper report: "Mr Salt said there were three unattached young men to every two women in Melbourne's "Menopolis", which stretches from behind the Arts Centre to the casino along Southbank.

Its female counterpart, connected by the number 22 tram, is Princes Hill, a tiny suburb between North Carlton and Brunswick. When the last census was taken in 2001, there were 653 single young women living in the area, with a ratio of 1.2 unattached women to every male."

Answer 3

Hi....;
In English, the term "meno",as in "menopause" is the greek equivalent of en-meno-pafsis = every month's pause.(emmenopause). So "meno" could've meant the like of a provisional-ry.
Does this "menopolis" (polis=city) could mean a provisional city or a city that gets full of people every so and a while ?
Now, "meno" means I stay, I live in. It'd be an excess to call a town "menopolis" because people stay in, for it's obvious ; unless
they live there for a specific time per month.
There is also another explanation, according to your pronounciati on: Could also mean the City of King Menos, Menopolis, a like labyrinth city, where one gets lost!-
Ciao......John-John.

Answer 4

I believe it refers to an area or town with a very high proportion of eligible bachelors it appears to be used mainly in N.America and Australia

Answer 5

corruption of the greek meno-i stay, and polis- people,.so people stay or i stay people.doesnt make sense,so maybe a typo error.oops meant polis means town ,so stay in town?