Dictionary

metropolitan en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /mɛtɹəˈpɒlɪtən/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˌmɛtɹəˈpɑlɪtən/ (General-American, dialectal) of Canada
• /mɛtɹəˈpɒlɪtən/ (Canada, dialectal) of the US
• [-ɾn̩] (Canada, dialectal) of the US
• (US) audio
• [-ɾən] (Canada, dialectal) of the US
• [-tn̩] (Received-Pronunciation)
• [-ɾən] (General-American, dialectal) of Canada
• /ˌmetɹəˈpɒlɪtən/ (Australia)
• [-ɾn̩] (Australia)
• [-ɾn̩] (General-American, dialectal) of Canada
• /ˌmetɹəˈpɔlɪtən/ (Australia)
• [-ɾən] (Australia)

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. Pertaining to the see or province of a metropolitan.
2. Of, or pertaining to, a metropolis or other large urban settlement.
   • 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. 1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:
3. Of or pertaining to the parent state of a colony or territory, or the home country, e.g. metropolitan France
   • Policies relating to the elimination of racial discrimination which obtain in metropolitan New Zealand are applicable in the Tokelau Islands. 1974, New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Report on the Tokelau Islands, page 8:
   • 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. 2015, Wouter Veenendaal, The Dutch Caribbean municipalities in comparative perspective. Island Studies Journal 10(1): 15–30

Forms

Antonyms

non-metropolitan

Coordinates

micropolitan

Deriveds

perimetropolitan · unmetropolitan · ruralpolitan · metropolitan borough · metropolitan county · metrosexual · metropolitan city · metropolitanism · metropolitanly · metropolitan area · extrametropolitan · metropolitanate · metropolitanise · submetropolitan · metropolitan elite · micropolitan · metropolitanship · metropolitanize · Delaware Valley Metropolitan Area · nonmetropolitan · Kamrup Metropolitan · Santiago Metropolitan Region · metroplex · metropolitan area network · metropolitan core

Translations (24)

pt metropolitano (pertaining to a metropolis) · fi suurkaupunkilainen (pertaining to a metropolis) · ca metropolità (pertaining to a metropolis) · cs metropolitní (pertaining to a metropolis) · hi महानगरीय (pertaining to a metropolis) · pl stołeczny (pertaining to a metropolis) · ru метрополитенский (pertaining to a metropolis) · fr urbain (pertaining to a metropolis) · eo metropolita (pertaining to a metropolis) · ja 都立 (pertaining to a metropolis) · no metropolitt (pertaining to a metropolis) · el μητροπολίτης (pertaining to a metropolis) · es metropolitano (pertaining to a metropolis) · kk метрополитендік (pertaining to a metropolis) · ru центра́льный (pertaining to a metropolis) · la metropolitanus (pertaining to a metropolis) · it metropolitano (pertaining to a metropolis) · ru столи́чный (pertaining to a metropolis) · fr métropolitain (pertaining to a metropolis) · ru городско́й (pertaining to a metropolis) · pl metropolitalny (pertaining to a metropolis) · bg столичен (pertaining to a metropolis) · apc مطراني (pertaining to the see or province of a metropolitan) · ga uirbeach (pertaining to a metropolis)

metropolitan en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /mɛtɹəˈpɒlɪtən/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˌmɛtɹəˈpɑlɪtən/ (General-American, dialectal) of Canada
• /mɛtɹəˈpɒlɪtən/ (Canada, dialectal) of the US
• [-ɾn̩] (Canada, dialectal) of the US
• (US) audio
• [-ɾən] (Canada, dialectal) of the US
• [-tn̩] (Received-Pronunciation)
• [-ɾən] (General-American, dialectal) of Canada
• /ˌmetɹəˈpɒlɪtən/ (Australia)
• [-ɾn̩] (Australia)
• [-ɾn̩] (General-American, dialectal) of Canada
• /ˌmetɹəˈpɔlɪtən/ (Australia)
• [-ɾən] (Australia)

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. A bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop.
   • 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. 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 514:
   • She was in love with all the new royal princes and princesses, who entered into family relationship with the imperial family; she had been in love with a metropolitan, with a vicar, and with a priest. 1904 [1878], chapter 23, in Leo Wiener, transl., Anna Karénin, Boston: D. Estes & Company, translation of Анна Каренина (Anna Karenina) by Leo Tolstoy, part 5, page 423:
   • 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. 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:
2. The inhabitant of a metropolis.

Forms

Synonyms

metropolitan bishop

Translations (40)

rup mitrupulít (bishop empowered to oversee other bishops) · fa-ira مَطْران (bishop empowered to oversee other bishops) · bg митрополи́т (bishop empowered to oversee other bishops) · be мітрапалі́т (bishop empowered to oversee other bishops) · ar مِطْرَان (bishop empowered to oversee other bishops) · de Metropolit (bishop empowered to oversee other bishops) · hy մետրապոլիտ (bishop empowered to oversee other bishops) · ru митрополи́т (bishop empowered to oversee other bishops) · ka მიტროპოლიტი (bishop empowered to oversee other bishops) · hu metropolita (bishop empowered to oversee other bishops) · sk metropolita (bishop empowered to oversee other bishops) · fi metropoliitta (bishop empowered to oversee other bishops) · ar مَطْرَان (bishop empowered to oversee other bishops) · sq mitropolíti (bishop empowered to oversee other bishops) · es metropolitano (bishop empowered to oversee other bishops) · sq mitropolít (bishop empowered to oversee other bishops) · sh metropòlīt (bishop empowered to oversee other bishops) · el μητροπολίτης (bishop empowered to oversee other bishops) · tr metropolit (bishop empowered to oversee other bishops) · ar مُطْرَان (bishop empowered to oversee other bishops) · uk митрополи́т (bishop empowered to oversee other bishops) · sv metropolit (bishop empowered to oversee other bishops) · fa-ira مِطْران (bishop empowered to oversee other bishops) · cmn 大主教 (bishop empowered to oversee other bishops) · sh mitropòlīt (bishop empowered to oversee other bishops) · pl metropolita (bishop empowered to oversee other bishops) · sh метропо̀лӣт (bishop empowered to oversee other bishops) · ml മെത്രാൻ (bishop empowered to oversee other bishops) · sl metropolit (bishop empowered to oversee other bishops) · it metropolita (bishop empowered to oversee other bishops) · vi giám mục đô thành (bishop empowered to oversee other bishops) · ja 府主教 (bishop empowered to oversee other bishops) · eo metropolito (bishop empowered to oversee other bishops) · cs metropolita (bishop empowered to oversee other bishops) · mk митропо́лит (bishop empowered to oversee other bishops) · et metropoliit (bishop empowered to oversee other bishops) · sh митропо̀лӣт (bishop empowered to oversee other bishops) · rup mitrupulítu (bishop empowered to oversee other bishops) · da metropolit (bishop empowered to oversee other bishops) · ro mitropolit (bishop empowered to oversee other bishops)