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1. (adj.) metropolitan
characteristic of a metropolis or its inhabitants, esp. in sophistication.
2. metropolitan
of or pertaining to a large city and its surrounding communities:
the New York metropolitan area.
3. metropolitan
pertaining to or constituting a mother country.
4. (n.) metropolitan
an inhabitant of a metropolis.
5. metropolitan
a person who has the manners associated with metropolitans.
6. metropolitan
the head of an ecclesiastical province in an Eastern Church.
7. metropolitan
an archbishop in the Church of England.
8. metropolitan
a Roman Catholic archbishop who has authority over one or more suffragan sees.
Etymology: (1300–50; ME < LL mētropolītānus of, belonging to a metropolis < Gk mētropol&imacracute;t(ēs))
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1. (noun) metropolitan
in the Eastern Orthodox Church this title is given to a position between bishop and patriarch; equivalent to archbishop in western Christianity
2. (adj) metropolitan
a person who lives in a metropolis
3. (adj) metropolitan
relating to or characteristic of a metropolis
"metropolitan area"
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1. (adjective) metropolitan
relating to a city or city life
a metropolitan community
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) metropolitan
of or pertaining to the capital or principal city of a country; as, metropolitan luxury
2. (adj) metropolitan
of, pertaining to, or designating, a metropolitan or the presiding bishop of a country or province, his office, or his dignity; as, metropolitan authority
3. (noun) metropolitan
the superior or presiding bishop of a country or province
4. (noun) metropolitan
an archbishop
5. (noun) metropolitan
a bishop whose see is civil metropolis. His rank is intermediate between that of an archbishop and a patriarch
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Sense: of or in a capital city
the metropolitan area/police.
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 Afrikaans: metropools |
 Arabic: خاص بالعاصِمه أو المدينَة |
 Bulgarian: столичен |
 Brazilian: metropolitano |
 Czech: metropolitní |
 German: hauptstädtisch |
 Danish: hovedstads- |
 Greek: μητροπολιτικός |
 Spanish: metropolitano |
 Estonian: suurlinna(-) |
 Farsi: کلان شهری |
 Finnish: suurkaupungin |
 French: métropolitain |
 Hebrew: שֶׁל הַמֶטרוֹפּוֹלִין |
 Hindi: महानगरीय |
 Croatian: prijestolni, glavni |
 Hungarian: fővárosi |
 Indonesian: metropolitan |
 Icelandic: stórborgar- |
 Italian: metropolitano |
 Japanese: 大都市の |
 Korean: 주요 도시의 |
 Lithuanian: didmiesčio, sostinės, mun |
 Latvian: galvaspilsētas-; lielpils |
 Malay: metropolitan |
 Dutch: grootstedelijk |
 Norwegian: hovedstads- |
 Polish: metropolitarny |
 Persian: پوليس متروپول |
 Pashto: متروپول پوليس |
 Portuguese: metropolitano |
 Romanian: metropolitan |
 Russian: столичный |
 Slovak: metropolitný |
 Slovenian: velemesten |
 Serbian: metropolitski |
 Swedish: huvud-, stor-, världsstad |
 Thai: แห่งเมืองหลวง |
 Turkish: başkente ait |
 Taiwanese: 大都會的 |
 Ukrainian: столичний |
 Urdu: کسی بڑے شہر سے متعلق |
 Vietnamese: có tính thủ đô |
 Chinese: 大城市的，主要都市的 |
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