Metropolitan

Word METROPOLITAN
Character 12
Hyphenation met ro pol i tan
Pronunciations /mɛtɹəˈpɒlɪtən/

Definitions and meanings of "Metropolitan"

What do we mean by metropolitan?

Of, relating to, or characteristic of a major city. adjective

Of or constituting a large city or urbanized area, including adjacent suburbs and towns. adjective

Of, relating to, or constituting the home territory of an imperial or colonial state. adjective

Of or relating to an ecclesiastical metropolitan. adjective

A citizen of a metropolis, especially one who displays urbane characteristics, attitudes, and values. noun

In the Western Christian churches, a bishop with provincial powers, with some authority over suffragan bishops. noun

In most Eastern Orthodox churches, a bishop who is head of an ecclesiastical province and ranks next below the patriarch. noun

In the Greek Orthodox church, a bishop ranking next below an archbishop. noun

Of or pertaining to a metropolis, in any sense; residing in or connected with a metropolis: as, metropolitan enterprise; metropolitan police.

Of or pertaining to the chief see of an ecclesiastical province: as, a metropolitan church.

A citizen of the mother city or parent state of a colony. See metropolis, 1. noun

Eccles.: In the early Christian church, the bishop of the municipal capital of a province or eparchy, who had a general ecclesiastical superintendence over the bishops and churches of his province, continued, ordained, and when necessary excommunicated the bishops, and convened and presided over the provincial synods. noun

In modern usage, in the Roman Catholic and other episcopal churches, any archbishop who has bishops under his authority. noun

In the Greek Church, the bishop of the municipal capital of a province, who is in rank intermediate between a patriarch and a bishop or titular archbishop. noun

A chief city; a metropolis. noun

The superior or presiding bishop of a country or province. noun

An archbishop. noun

A bishop whose see is a civil metropolis. His rank is intermediate between that of an archbishop and a patriarch. noun

A bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop.

The inhabitant of a metropolis.

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The word "metropolitan" in example sentences

Their national or archdiocese leaders have the title metropolitan or patriarch. ❋ PAUL R. MARTIN (2002)

The title metropolitan is now given to almost every bishop. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Cars are plenty fast enough for trips within metropolitan areas, and for the vast majority of such trips, much faster than mass transit. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Trains are less subsidized than roads, and much more efficient in metropolitan areas. ❋ Unknown (2010)

With over 50% of people living in metropolitan areas there have never been so many rapidly rising urban areas -- or so many declining ones. ❋ Joel Kotkin (2010)

“Cars are plenty fast enough for trips within metropolitan areas, and for the vast majority of such trips, much faster than mass transit.” ❋ Unknown (2010)

More than forty years after the passage of the Fair Housing Act, two thirds of all black urbanites continue to live under conditions of high segregation and nearly half live in metropolitan areas where the degree of racial isolation is so intense it conforms to the criteria for hypersegregation. ❋ Douglas S. Massey (2010)

Homeowners are coping well in metropolitan San Francisco too. ❋ Stephane Fitch (2010)

One quibble would be with the geography of these Games, the ice sports in metropolitan Vancouver, the snow sports 21/2 hours away in Whistler. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For the study, a team of researchers led by Loyola University Health System compared the weight, activity levels and diets of a group of African American women living in metropolitan Chicago with a group of women living in rural Nigeria. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Maybe the contract companies hired to drop off the books do not have the resources to consider individual addresses in metropolitan areas like Philadelphia, where I reside, but the litter created globally by the mass amounts of unwanted phone books seems inexcusable. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I was astounded at how much more money Cindy made from her distributorship, but then again metropolitan Phoenix is much bigger than greater Syracuse, and its hot out there, so they probably drink more beer. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And what share of people living in metropolitan areas live in exurbs rather than suburbs? ❋ Unknown (2009)

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