Metropolitan

//mɛtɹəˈpɒlɪtən// adj, name, noun

adj, name, noun ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop.

    "I knovv God by Miracle can inſtruct Kings, as he rained Mannah, and raiſed the Apoſtles from letterless Fiſher-men, to learned Metropolitans, and profound Doctours."

  2. 2
    a person who lives in a metropolis wordnet
  3. 3
    The inhabitant of a metropolis.
  4. 4
    in the Eastern Orthodox Church this title is given to a position between bishop and patriarch; equivalent to archbishop in western Christianity wordnet
Adjective
  1. 1
    Pertaining to the see or province of a metropolitan.
  2. 2
    Of or pertaining to London, United Kingdom. England, dated, not-comparable
  3. 3
    Of, or pertaining to, a metropolis or other large urban settlement.
  4. 4
    Of or pertaining to the parent state of a colony or territory, or the home country, e.g. metropolitan France

    "Policies relating to the elimination of racial discrimination which obtain in metropolitan New Zealand are applicable in the Tokelau Islands."

Adjective
  1. 1
    relating to or characteristic of a metropolis wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The Metropolitan Line of London Underground, which has its ancestry in the Metropolitan Railway.

Synonyms

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archbishopbishopcanoncardinalchaplaincity

Example

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"The flu struck the metropolitan area."

Etymology

From Late Latin metropolitanus, from Ancient Greek μητροπολίτης (mētropolítēs).

Related phrases

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