Metropolitan Meaning
/mɛtɹəˈpɒlɪtən/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop.
nounThe inhabitant of a metropolis.
Sentence Examples
The flu struck the metropolitan area.
How high is the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Office Building?
He centered his business on the metropolitan area.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ area includes the central city and its surrounding suburbs.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ area has seen a significant increase in population over the last decade as more people move to the city for work.
Word Origin & History
From Late Latin metropolitanus, from Ancient Greek μητροπολίτης (mētropolítēs).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 1663, Edward Waterhous[e], 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:
"She was in love with all the new royal princes and princesses, who entered into family relationship with the imperial family; she had been in love with a metropolitan, with a vicar, and with a priest."
— 1904 [1878], chapter 23, in Leo Wiener, transl., Anna Karénin, Boston: D. Estes & Company, translation of Анна Каренина (Anna Karenina) by Leo Tolstoy, part 5, page 423:
"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."
— 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 514:
"But the one [letter] in the unknown script and with a metropolitan post mark—could it be from some London Woman? In spite of having lived in the country all her life and for the most part in remote Devon, Miss Tilehurst had always understood that such beings really existed."
— 1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:
"Policies relating to the elimination of racial discrimination which obtain in metropolitan New Zealand are applicable in the Tokelau Islands."
— 1974, New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Report on the Tokelau Islands, page 8:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ area includes the central city and its surrounding suburbs.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ area has seen a significant increase in population over the last decade as more people move to the city for work.