metropolitan

[ me-truh-pol-i-tn ]

/ ˌmɛ trəˈpɒl ɪ tn /

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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 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

OTHER WORDS FROM metropolitan

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

Words nearby metropolitan

metroperitonitis, metrophlebitis, metroplasty, metroplex, metropolis, metropolitan, metropolitan county, metropolitan district, metropolitan museum of art, metropolitan opera, metropolitanize

Example sentences from the Web for metropolitan

One beginning that amused him takes place at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.

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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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In June, the executive offices of the Metropolitan Opera were broken into and graffitied with obscene messages.

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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 suburbs the metropolitan area

of, relating to, or designating an ecclesiastical metropolis

of or belonging to the home territories of a country, as opposed to overseas territories metropolitan France

noun

Eastern Churches the head of an ecclesiastical province, ranking between archbishop and patriarch
Church of England an archbishop
RC Church an archbishop or bishop having authority in certain matters over the dioceses in his province

Derived forms of metropolitan

metropolitanism, noun

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