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metropolitan
[ me-truh-pol-i-tn ]
adjective
- 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.
- of or relating to a large city, its surrounding suburbs, and other neighboring communities:
the New York metropolitan area.
- pertaining to or constituting a mother country.
- pertaining to an ecclesiastical metropolis.
noun
- an inhabitant of a metropolis.
- a person who has the sophistication, fashionable taste, or other habits and manners associated with those who live in a metropolis.
- Eastern Church. the head of an ecclesiastical province.
- an archbishop in the Church of England.
- Roman Catholic Church. an archbishop who has authority over one or more suffragan sees.
- (in ancient Greece) a citizen of the mother city or parent state of a colony.
metropolitan
/ ˌɛٰəˈɒɪə /
adjective
- of or characteristic of a metropolis
- constituting a city and its suburbs
the metropolitan area
- of, relating to, or designating an ecclesiastical metropolis
- of or belonging to the home territories of a country, as opposed to overseas territories
metropolitan France
noun
- Eastern Churches the head of an ecclesiastical province, ranking between archbishop and patriarch
- Church of England an archbishop
- RC Church an archbishop or bishop having authority in certain matters over the dioceses in his province
Derived Forms
- ˌٰˈDZٲԾ, noun
Other Word Forms
- r·DZi·ٲ· noun
- t·r·DZi·ٲ adjective
- ԴDzm··DZi·ٲ adjective noun
- p·r·DZi·ٲ adjective
- ܲm··DZi·ٲ adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of metropolitan1
Example Sentences
For the first two seasons of “VPR,” the two shows would air back-to-back in a two-hour programming block that allowed viewers to traverse metropolitan California’s wealth spectrum.
Below California’s famed beaches, mountains and metropolitan areas lies a sinister web of earthquake faults — some so infamous that their names are burned into the state’s collective consciousness.
Sacramento is sprawling yet confined, natural yet metropolitan.
Red tape means that popular metropolitan areas like Melbourne and Sydney are far less dense than comparably sized cities around the world.
Research showed that Los Angeles and Orange counties “offered the fewest number of apartments with refrigerators among nearly two dozen large metropolitan areas nationwide.”
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