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.
Origin of metropolitan
1300–50; Middle English <Late Latin mētropolītānus of, belonging to a metropolis <Greek mētropolī́t(ēs) (see metropolis, -ite1) + Latin -ānus-an
metrophlebitis, metrophobia, metroplasty, Metroplex, metropolis, metropolitan, metropolitan county, metropolitan district, metropolitanize, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Metropolitan Opera
These three service areas happen to be in the largest metropolitan areas of the state, where population density creates the most opportunity for profit.
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By July 2020, about 60% of LinkedIn connections in the US were made with people outside of the user’s metropolitan area.
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The Seoul metropolitan area has emerged as a virus hot spot, and local government authorities made it mandatory this week for all citizens to wear masks both indoors and outdoors.
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One beginning that amused him takes place at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.
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The Metropolitan Center did not have enough room to keep the 26 women overnight, so they had to drive out to Van Nuys Jail.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute has staged some truly fantastic shows over the past few years.
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The Metropolitan Opera is the old-school Cadillac of arts institutions.
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It was something to be in a metropolitan theatre, witnessing one of the great successes of the season.
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The Metropolitan Railway is not here mentioned at all, for a similar reason.
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So Paul got on to the metropolitan railway and alighted at the Temple Station.
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The metropolitan church contains little that is attractive for antiquity or for beauty of the higher kind.
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It made a drive at the news columns of the metropolitan press on week days, and succeeded.
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British Dictionary definitions for metropolitan
metropolitan
/ (ˌmɛtrəˈpɒlɪtən) /
adjective
of or characteristic of a metropolis
constituting a city and its suburbsthe metropolitan area
of, relating to, or designating an ecclesiastical metropolis
of or belonging to the home territories of a country, as opposed to overseas territoriesmetropolitan France
noun
Eastern Churchesthe head of an ecclesiastical province, ranking between archbishop and patriarch
Church of Englandan archbishop
RC Churchan archbishop or bishop having authority in certain matters over the dioceses in his province