metropolitan

The definition of metropolitan is a city or something related to a city.

(adjective)

A city and the immediate locations surrounding it is an example of a metropolitan area.

See metropolitan in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

of or constituting a metropolis (senses & )
designating or of a metropolitan ()
☆ designating or of a population area consisting of a central city and smaller surrounding communities
designating or of a mother country as distinguished from a colony, territory, etc.

Origin: LL metropolitanus

noun

a person who lives in and knows a metropolis (senses & ) or one who has the characteristic attitudes and manners of such a person
Origin: LL(Ec) Metropolitanus
1. an archbishop having authority over the bishops of a church province
2. Eastern Ch. a bishop ranking just below a patriarch
in ancient Greece, a citizen of a metropolis (sense )

See metropolitan in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective

a. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a major city: crowded metropolitan streets; a metropolitan newspaper.
b. Of or constituting a large city or urbanized area, including adjacent suburbs and towns: the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area; a metropolitan county.
Of, relating to, or constituting the home territory of an imperial or colonial state.
Of or relating to an ecclesiastical metropolitan.

noun

A citizen of a metropolis, especially one who displays urbane characteristics, attitudes, and values.
a. In the Western Christian churches, a bishop with provincial powers, with some authority over suffragan bishops.
b. Eastern Orthodox Church A bishop who is head of an ecclesiastical province and ranks next below the patriarch.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English, of a metropolitan bishop

Origin: , from Late Latin mētropolītānus, metropolitan

Origin: , from Greek mētropolītēs, citizen of a metropolis

Origin: , from mētropolis, mother city; see metropolis

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