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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 pertaining 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.

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(in ancient Greece) a citizen of the mother city or parent state of a colony.

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Origin:
1300–50; Middle English < Late Latin mētropolītānus of, belonging to a metropolis < Greek mētropolī́t(ēs) (see metropolis, -ite¹) + Latin -ānus -an

Related forms

met·ro·pol·i·tan·ism, noun

in·ter·met·ro·pol·i·tan, adjective

non·met·ro·pol·i·tan, adjective, noun

su·per·met·ro·pol·i·tan, adjective

un·met·ro·pol·i·tan, adjective

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Example Sentences

Metropolitan regions are now home to the majority of the population.

Boston is a skilled metropolitan area and its restricted supply has led to high prices.

They will conclude by researching and reporting on the sprawl situation in a nearby metropolitan area.

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Metropolitan regions are now home to the majority of the population.

Boston is a skilled metropolitan area and its restricted supply has led to high prices.

They will conclude by researching and reporting on the sprawl situation in a nearby metropolitan area.

Redesigning metropolitan areas as bioregional city-states can reduce our human footprint.

I'll have to save them for another trip to a metropolitan area, though.

Available in gray or sand colors, to compliment your metropolitan wardrobe.

Alabama's historic downtown and is close to other major metropolitan areas.

Since then, however, the skill-level of metropolitan areas has diverged.

But you don't need an alibi-or an excuse-to visit one of the country's fastest growing metropolitan areas.

However the large metropolitan areas now have to spend so much on transporting waste to landfills that it likely is feasible now.

Schoenstein mobilized his staff to scour the metropolitan area for the then-rare medicine and deliver it to the hospital.

Metropolitan growth worldwide has sparked a renaissance in models for urban planning.

The biggest metropolitan employment gains over the past twelve months have accrued in a diverse array of places.

Prepare for your next trip with illustrative maps of recreation regions near major metropolitan areas.

Most of the congestion and excess fuel consumption is in major metropolitan areas.

New schemes would ease congestion in metropolitan areas and freight networks.

They also visit locales away from the more popular metropolitan areas.

Of course, compressed natural gas is already the fuel of choice for many metropolitan area bus fleets.

Another possibility is that growth in some metropolitan areas is focused in less productive industries.

Utah is a vibrant metropolitan area with high quality of life and outdoor recreation opportunities.

The metropolitan area offers a wide variety of cultural and recreational opportunities.

The city as a metropolitan core containing jobs and shops.

Little is known about this leader who ruled the long-deserted metropolitan center now known as.

Even if you do live in a metropolitan area buzzing with phone lines, actually getting your home hooked up can be a nightmare.

Nineteen percent of metropolitan campuses had capped.

But she fears for the big metropolitan newspapers, which may find themselves trapped in the middle.

Federal employees tend to be well educated and they tend to work in expensive metropolitan areas.

Wireless services already exist in certain metropolitan areas through other vendors.

Another is a crude rendering of a metropolitan cityscape.

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Collins

World English Dictionary

metropolitan (ˌmɛtrəˈpɒlɪtən)

—*adj*
1.	of or characteristic of a metropolis
2.	constituting a city and its suburbs: the metropolitan area
3.	of, relating to, or designating an ecclesiastical metropolis
4.	of or belonging to the home territories of a country, as opposed to overseas territories: metropolitan France

—n
5.	a. Eastern Churches the head of an ecclesiastical province, ranking between archbishop and patriarch
	b. Church of England an archbishop
	c. RC Church an archbishop or bishop having authority in certain matters over the dioceses in his province

metro'politanism

—n

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Word Origin & History

metropolitan

early 15c., as a noun, "bishop having oversight of other bishops," from L.L. metropolitanus, from Gk. metropolis "mother city" (from which others have been colonized), from meter "mother" + polis "city" (see policy (1)). In Gk., "parent state of a colony;" later, "see of

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a metropolitan bishop." In the West, the position now roughly corresponds to archbishop, but in the Greek church it ranks above it. In English, the adj. sense of "belonging to an ecclesiastical metropolis" is from 1540s; that of "belonging to a chief or capital city" is from 1550s. In reference to underground city railways, it is attested from 1867.

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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia

metropolitan

in the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Anglican churches, the head of an ecclesiastical province. Originally, a metropolitan was a bishop of the Christian Church who resided in the chief city, or metropolis, of a civil province of the Roman Empire and, for ecclesiastical purposes, administered a territorial area coextensive with a civil province. The first known use of the title in church conciliar documents was at the Council of Nicaea in 325, which definitely established the metropolitan in the organization of the church

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