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English
Etymology
From Late Latin metropolitanus, from Ancient Greek μητροπολίτης (mētropolítēs).
Pronunciation
Noun
metropolitan (plural metropolitans)
- (Orthodox Christianity) A bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop.
- Synonym: metropolitan bishop
1663, Edward Waterhous [i.e., Edward Waterhouse], chapter I, in Fortescutus Illustratus; or A Commentary on that Nervous Treatise De Laudibus Legum Angliæ, Written by Sir John Fortescue Knight, , London: Tho 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.
- The inhabitant of a metropolis.
Translations
bishop empowered to oversee other bishops
Adjective
metropolitan (comparative more metropolitan, superlative most metropolitan)
- (Orthodox Christianity) Pertaining to the see or province of a metropolitan.
- Of, or pertaining to, a metropolis or other large urban settlement.
- 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.
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations
pertaining to the see or province of a metropolitan
- Syrian Arabic: (Syria) مطراني m
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pertaining to a metropolis
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- Japanese:
- (please verify) 大都市の (daitoshino) (だいとしの); referring to large urban ???
- (please verify) 府主教 (fushukyō) (ふしゅきょう); Metropolitan bishop in Orthodox Church
- (please verify) 首都大司教 (shutodaishikyō) (しゅとだいしきょう); Metropolitan bishop in Catholic Church
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Adjective
metropolitan m (feminine singular metropolitana, masculine plural metropolitans, feminine plural metropolitanes)
- metropolitan
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French métropolitain.
Noun
metropolitan n (plural metropolitane)
- (dated) metro, subway, underground
Declension
Declension of metropolitan