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adjective
- 1. relating to or denoting a metropolis or large city: "the Boston metropolitan area"
- 2. relating to or denoting the parent state of a colony: "metropolitan Spain"
noun
- 1. a bishop having authority over the bishops of a province, in particular (in Orthodox Churches) one ranking above archbishop and below patriarch: "the post of Metropolitan of Moldavia and Bucovina"
- 2. an inhabitant of a metropolis or large city: "a sophisticated metropolitan"
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1. : of or constituting a metropolitan or his see. 2. : of, relating to, or characteristic of a metropolis and sometimes including its suburbs. 3. : of, relating to, or constituting a mother country as distinguished from a colony.
Metropolitan definition: 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.. See examples of METROPOLITAN used in a sentence.
metropolitan | American Dictionary. adjective. us / ˌme·trəˈpɑl·ɪ·t ə n / Add to word list. of or in a large city: the Boston metropolitan area.
adjective. us / ˌmet.rəˈpɑː.lə.t ə n / uk / ˌmet.rəˈpɒl.ɪ.t ə n / Add to word list. relating to a large city: the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He was drawn to the metropolitan glamour and excitement of Paris. a metropolitan area. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Towns & regions: towns, cities & villages (general)
A person who lives in a metropolis, or city, is also called a metropolitan. You may have loved cities even when you were growing up in the suburbs, looking forward to the day you could become a true metropolitan in the biggest city you could find.
1. (Sociology) of or characteristic of a metropolis. 2. (Human Geography) constituting a city and its suburbs: the metropolitan area. 3. (Ecclesiastical Terms) Also: metropolitical of, relating to, or designating an ecclesiastical metropolis.
1. of, noting, or characteristic of a metropolis or its inhabitants, esp. in culture, sophistication, or in accepting and combining a wide variety of people, ideas, etc. 2. of or pertaining to a large city, its surrounding suburbs, and other neighboring communities. the New York metropolitan area. 3.