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metropolitan
[me-truh-pol-i-tn]
adjective
of, noting, or characteristic of a metropolis or its inhabitants, especially in culture, sophistication, or in accepting and combining a wide variety of people, ideas, etc.
of or relating to a large city, its surrounding suburbs, and other neighboring communities.
the New York metropolitan area.
pertaining to or constituting a mother country.
pertaining to an ecclesiastical metropolis.
noun
an inhabitant of a metropolis.
a person who has the sophistication, fashionable taste, or other habits and manners associated with those who live in a metropolis.
Eastern Church.the head of an ecclesiastical province.
an archbishop in the Church of England.
Roman Catholic Church.an archbishop who has authority over one or more suffragan sees.
(in ancient Greece) a citizen of the mother city or parent state of a colony.
metropolitan
/ ˌɛٰəˈɒɪə /
adjective
of or characteristic of a metropolis
constituting a city and its suburbs
the metropolitan area
of, relating to, or designating an ecclesiastical metropolis
of or belonging to the home territories of a country, as opposed to overseas territories
metropolitan France
noun
Eastern Churches the head of an ecclesiastical province, ranking between archbishop and patriarch
Church of England an archbishop
RC Church an archbishop or bishop having authority in certain matters over the dioceses in his province
Other 51Թ Forms
- metropolitanism noun
- intermetropolitan adjective
- nonmetropolitan adjective
- supermetropolitan adjective
- unmetropolitan adjective
- ˌٰˈDZٲԾ noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of metropolitan1
Example Sentences
The business became a fixture in the city as it grew into one of the country’s major metropolitan centers.
County sent a series of faulty evacuation alerts on Jan. 9, urging people across a metropolitan region of 10 million to prepare to evacuate.
And much like metropolitan Los Angeles, it’s hard to overstate just how cosmopolitan the new pope is.
Not quite metropolitan or rural, is how the former police officer described it in his maiden speech as MP.
The Liberal party's most crushing losses were in Australia's major cities, where party members have been all but wiped out in metropolitan areas including Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide.
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