metropolitan

Meaning of metropolitan

adjective
  1. relating to or denoting a metropolis or large city.
    the Boston metropolitan area
  2. relating to or denoting the parent state of a colony.
    metropolitan Spain
  3. relating to or denoting a metropolitan or his see.
    a metropolitan bishop
noun
  1. a bishop having authority over the bishops of a province, in particular (in Orthodox Churches) one ranking above archbishop and below patriarch.
    the post of Metropolitan of Moldavia and Bucovina
    Metropolitan Aleksei of Leningrad and Novgorod
  2. an inhabitant of a metropolis or large city.
    a sophisticated metropolitan

late Middle English (in the ecclesiastical sense): from late Latin metropolitanus, from Greek mētropolitēs ‘citizen of a mother state’, from mētropolis (see metropolis).

Information about metropolitan

  • The plural form of metropolitan is: metropolitans.
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Hyphenation of metropolitan

met-ro-pol-i-tan

  • It consists of 5 syllables and 12 chars.
  • metropolitan is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables

Translation of metropolitan

Words that rhyme with metropolitan

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