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trəˈpɒl adjective
1.
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.
2.
of or pertaining to a large city, its surrounding suburbs, and other neighboring communities: the New York metropolitan area.
3.
pertaining to or constituting a mother country.
4.
pertaining to an ecclesiastical metropolis.
noun
5.
an inhabitant of a metropolis.
6.
a person who has the sophistication, fashionable taste, or other habits and manners associated with those who live in a metropolis.
7.
Eastern Church. the head of an ecclesiastical province.
8.
an archbishop in the Church of England.
9.
Roman Catholic Church. an archbishop who has authority over one or more suffragan sees.
10.
(in ancient Greece) a citizen of the mother city or parent state of a colony.
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Metropolitan
is always a great word to know.
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| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Origin:
1300–50; Middle English < Late Latin mētropolītānus of, belonging to a metropolis < Greek mētropolī́t(ēs) (see metropolis, -ite1) + Latin -ānus -an
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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metropolitan (ˌmɛtrəˈpɒlɪtən) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —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
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
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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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Example sentences
Even if you do live in a metropolitan area buzzing with phone lines, actually getting your home hooked up can be a nightmare.
But you don't need an alibi-or an excuse-to visit one of the country's fastest growing metropolitan areas.
Metropolitan regions are now home to the majority of the population.
They also visit locales away from the more popular metropolitan areas.
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