metropolitan

See also: Metropolitan

English

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metropolitan

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /mɛtɹəˈpɒlɪt(ə)n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /mɛtɹəˈpɑlɪt(ə)n/, [-ɾ(ə)n]

• Audio (General American):

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• 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

   • 1663, Edward Waterhous [i.e., Edward Waterhouse], chapter I, in Fortescutus Illustratus; or A Commentary on that Nervous Treatise De Laudibus Legum Angliæ, Written by Sir John Fortescue Knight, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Roycroft for Thomas Dicas […], →OCLC, page 38:

     I knovv God by Miracle can inſtruct Kings, as he rained Mannah, and raiſed the Apoſtles from letterless Fiſher-men, to learned Metropolitans, and profound Doctours.

   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 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

bishop empowered to oversee other bishops

Albanian: mitropolít (sq) m, mitropolíti m Arabic: مُطْرَان m (muṭrān), مِطْرَان m (miṭrān), مَطْرَان m (maṭrān) Armenian: մետրապոլիտ (hy) (metrapolit) Aromanian: mitrupulít m, mitrupulítu m Belarusian: мітрапалі́т m (mitrapalít) Bulgarian: митрополи́т (bg) m (mitropolít) Chinese: Mandarin: 大主教 (zh) (dàzhǔjiào) Danish: (in Orthodox Church) metropolit c Esperanto: metropolito (eo) Finnish: metropoliitta (fi) Italian: metropolita (it) m Macedonian: митропо́лит m (mitropólit) Malayalam: മെത്രാൻ (ml) (metrāṉ) Polish: metropolita (pl) m Romanian: mitropolit (ro) m Russian: митрополи́т (ru) m (mitropolít) Spanish: metropolitano (es) m Swedish: metropolit (sv) c Ukrainian: митрополи́т m (mytropolýt)

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
   • 1974, New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Report on the Tokelau Islands, page 8:

     Policies relating to the elimination of racial discrimination which obtain in metropolitan New Zealand are applicable in the Tokelau Islands.

   • 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

• metropolitan area
• metropolitan area network
• metropolitan borough
• metropolitan city
• metropolitan core
• metropolitan county
• metropolitan elite
• Santiago Metropolitan Region

Translations

pertaining to the see or province of a metropolitan

Syrian Arabic: (Syria) مطراني m

pertaining to a metropolis

Bulgarian: столичен (bg) (stoličen) Catalan: metropolità (ca) Czech: metropolitní Esperanto: metropolita (eo) Finnish: suurkaupunkilainen French: métropolitain (fr), urbain (fr) Greek: (Metropolitan bishop in Orthodox Church) μητροπολίτης (el) (mitropolítis) Hindi: महानगरीय (mahānagarīya) Irish: uirbeach Italian: metropolitano (it) Japanese: 都立 (ja) (toritsu) Latin: metropolitanus Norwegian: (Metropolitan bishop in Orthodox Church) metropolitt Polish: metropolitalny (pl), stołeczny (pl) Portuguese: metropolitano (pt) Russian: центра́льный (ru) (centrálʹnyj), столи́чный (ru) (stolíčnyj), (broadly) городско́й (ru) (gorodskój) Spanish: metropolitano (es)

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Japanese: (please verify) 大都市の (daitoshino) (だいとしの); referring to large urban ??? (please verify) 府主教 (fushukyō) (ふしゅきょう); Metropolitan bishop in Orthodox Church (please verify) 首都大司教 (shutodaishikyō) (しゅとだいしきょう); Metropolitan bishop in Catholic Church

Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

metropolitan

Wikipedia ^id

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /mətropoˈlitan/ [mət̪̚.ro.poˈli.t̪an]
• Rhymes: -itan
• Syllabification: met‧ro‧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

Declension of metropolitan

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	metropolitan	metropolitanul		metropolitane	metropolitanele
genitive-dative	metropolitan	metropolitanului		metropolitane	metropolitanelor
vocative	metropolitanule			metropolitanelor