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metropolitan

[ me-truh-pol-i-tn ]

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 relating 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

  1. an inhabitant of a metropolis.
  2. a person who has the sophistication, fashionable taste, or other habits and manners associated with those who live in a metropolis.
  3. Eastern Church. the head of an ecclesiastical province.
  4. an archbishop in the Church of England.
  5. Roman Catholic Church. an archbishop who has authority over one or more suffragan sees.
  6. (in ancient Greece) a citizen of the mother city or parent state of a colony.

metropolitan

/ ˌɛٰəˈɒɪə /

adjective

  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

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

    1. Eastern Churches the head of an ecclesiastical province, ranking between archbishop and patriarch
    2. Church of England an archbishop
    3. RC Church an archbishop or bishop having authority in certain matters over the dioceses in his province
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌٰˈDZٲԾ, noun
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Other yvlog Forms

  • r·DZi·ٲ· noun
  • t·r·DZi·ٲ adjective
  • ԴDzm··DZi·ٲ adjective noun
  • p·r·DZi·ٲ adjective
  • ܲm··DZi·ٲ adjective
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of metropolitan1

1300–50; Middle English < Late Latin ŧٰDZDZīԳܲ of, belonging to a metropolis < Greek ŧٰDZDZī́ ( ŧ ) ( metropolis, -ite 1 ) + Latin -Գܲ -an
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Over the last 24 years, more than 4 million net domestic migrants, a population about the same as the Seattle metropolitan area, have moved to other parts of the nation from California.

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About 1,650 seats will be contested on 14 county councils, eight unitary authorities, one metropolitan district, and in the Isles of Scilly.

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With its red-accented A-frame roof, footbridge and wishing well, the home echoed the dwarfs’ forest abode from the movie, but sat in the distinctly more metropolitan locale of the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles.

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Most respondents were white, ranging from their late 20s to early 40s and living in or near a major metropolitan area.

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