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met·ro·pol·i·tan
I. \|me.trə|pälətən also -ətən or -əd.ən\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin metropolitanus, from metropolitanus, adjective
1. : the head of an ecclesiastical province:
a. : the head of an ecclesiastical province of the Eastern Orthodox Church who has his headquarters in a large city
b. : an archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church who presides over at least one suffragan see
c. : an archbishop of the Church of England
2. : one who lives in or has manners, customs, or ideas characteristic of a metropolis
< modern apartment-dwelling metropolitan — R.M.Weaver >
II. adjective
Etymology: Late Latin metropolitanus, from metropolita, metropolites metropolite + Latin -anus -an — more at metropolite
1. : of or befitting a metropolitan or his see : being an ecclesiastical metropolitan
< metropolitan authority >
< metropolitan bishops >
2. : of, relating to, characteristic of, or constituting a city that is a metropolis
< metropolitan markets >
< metropolitan newspapers >
3. : evincing characteristics (as urbane manners or cosmopolitan ideas) regarded as typical of residents of a great city : not provincial
< our instinctive desire to be metropolitan rather than parochial, to be “in the know” rather than to be ignorant of the very latest idiom — G.W.Sherburn >
4. : of, relating to, or constituting a mother country
< various metropolitan nations >
< metropolitan currency >
< metropolitan military forces >
< metropolitan France >
< there was upon the Witwatersrand very largely the same crowd of metropolitan miners — C.W.de Kiewiet >
5. : of, relating to, or constituting a region including a city and the densely populated surrounding areas that are socially and economically integrated with it
< metropolitan area >
< metropolitan district > |