metropolitan

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /mɛtɹəˈpɒlɪtən/
• (America) IPA: /mɛtɹɵˈpɑlɨtən/

Noun

metropolitan (plural metropolitans)

1. (Christianity) A bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop. [from 15th c.]
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 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.]

Translations

• Italian: metropolita
• Russian: митрополи́т
• Spanish: metropolitano

Adjective

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.]

Antonyms

• non-metropolitan

Translations

• French: métropolitain, urbain
• Italian: metropolitano
• Portuguese: metropolitano
• Russian: центра́льный
• Spanish: metropolitano

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Metropolitan

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Proper noun

1. (rail) The Metropolitan Line of London Underground, which has its ancestry in the Metropolitan Railway.

Synonyms

• Met

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