metropolitan - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'metropolitan' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Metropolitan

[ a.]

- Of or pertaining to the capital or principal city of a country; as, metropolitan luxury.
- Of, pertaining to, or designating, a metropolitan or the presiding bishop of a country or province, his office, or his dignity; as, metropolitan authority.

2 . Metropolitan

[ n.]

- The superior or presiding bishop of a country or province.
- An archbishop.
- A bishop whose see is civil metropolis. His rank is intermediate between that of an archbishop and a patriarch.

Meaning of 'metropolitan' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . metropolitan

[ a]

Meaning (1):
- relating to or characteristic of a metropolis

Example in sentence:

metropolitan area

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