metropolitan

English Online Dictionary. What means metropolitan‎? What does metropolitan mean?

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

metropolitan (plural metropolitans)

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

   Synonym: metropolitan bishop
2. The inhabitant of a metropolis. [from 18th c.]

Translations

Adjective

metropolitan (comparative more metropolitan, superlative most metropolitan)

1. (Orthodox 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

3. Of or pertaining to the parent state of a colony or territory, or the home country, e.g. metropolitan France
   • 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

• non-metropolitan

Derived terms

Translations

Indonesian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

metropolitan

1. metropolitan

Noun

metropolitan (plural metropolitan-metropolitan)

1. metropolitan

Further reading

• “metropolitan” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Ladin

Adjective

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

1. metropolitan

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French métropolitain.

Noun

metropolitan n (plural metropolitane)

1. (dated) metro, subway, underground

Declension