metropolitan

From Late Latin metropolitanus, from Ancient Greek μητροπολίτης (mētropolítēs).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /mɛtɹəˈpɒlɪtən/, [-tn̩]
• (General American, dialects of Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌmɛtɹəˈpɑlɪtən/, [-ɾən], [-ɾn̩]

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• (Canada, dialects of the US) IPA^(key): /mɛtɹəˈpɒlɪtən/, [-ɾən], [-ɾn̩]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌmetɹəˈpɔlɪtən/, /ˌmetɹəˈpɒlɪtən/, [-ɾən], [-ɾn̩]
• Rhymes: -ɒlɪtən
• Hyphenation: me‧tro‧po‧lit‧an

metropolitan (plural metropolitans)

1. (Christianity) A bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop. [from 15th c.]

   Synonym: metropolitan bishop

   • 1663, Edward Waterhous[e], chapter I, in Fortescutus Illustratus; or A Commentary on that Nervous Treatise De Laudibus Legum Angliæ, Written by Sir John Fortescue Knight, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Roycroft for Thomas Dicas […], →OCLC, page 38:

     I knovv God by Miracle can inſtruct Kings, as he rained Mannah, and raiſed the Apoſtles from letterless Fiſher-men, to learned Metropolitans, and profound Doctours.

   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 514:

     Yet from the late thirteenth century the metropolitan based himself either in Moscow or Vladimir-on-the-Kliazma, which was also in Muscovite territory, and it became the ambition of the Muscovites to make this arrangement permanent.

2. The inhabitant of a metropolis. [from 18th c.]

metropolitan (comparative more metropolitan, superlative most metropolitan)

1. (Christianity) Pertaining to the see or province of a metropolitan. [from 15th c.]
2. Of, or pertaining to, a metropolis or other large urban settlement. [from 16th c.]

   Coordinate term: micropolitan

   • 1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:

     But the one [letter] in the unknown script and with a metropolitan post mark—could it be from some London Woman? In spite of having lived in the country all her life and for the most part in remote Devon, Miss Tilehurst had always understood that such beings really existed.

3. Of or pertaining to the parent state of a colony or territory, or the home country, e.g. metropolitan France
   • 1974, New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Report on the Tokelau Islands, page 8:

     Policies relating to the elimination of racial discrimination which obtain in metropolitan New Zealand are applicable in the Tokelau Islands.

   • 2015, Wouter Veenendaal, The Dutch Caribbean municipalities in comparative perspective. Island Studies Journal 10(1): 15–30:

     the new political status of these islands marks a definite break with the traditional Dutch colonial practice to keep its Caribbean colonies at a distance; and, after 2010, Dutch metropolitan laws and dministrative practices started being implemented on the islands.

• non-metropolitan

Borrowed from English metropolitan, from Late Latin metropolitanus, from Ancient Greek μητροπολίτης (mētropolítēs).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /metropoˈlitan/ [me.t̪ro.poˈli.t̪an]
• Rhymes: -itan
• Syllabification: me‧tro‧po‧li‧tan

metropolitan (comparative lebih metropolitan, superlative paling metropolitan)

1. metropolitan

metropolitan (plural metropolitan-metropolitan)

1. metropolitan

• “metropolitan”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

metropolitan m (feminine singular metropolitana, masculine plural metropolitans, feminine plural metropolitanes)

1. metropolitan

Borrowed from French métropolitain.

metropolitan n (plural metropolitane)

1. (dated) metro, subway, underground