metropolitan

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Late Latin metropolitanus, from Ancient Greek μητρόπολις (metropolis).

[edit] Adjective

metropolitan (comparative more metropolitan, superlative most metropolitan)

Positive
metropolitan

Comparative
more metropolitan

Superlative
most metropolitan

  1. of, or pertaining to, a metropolis or other large urban settlement.

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[edit] Noun

Singular
metropolitan

Plural
metropolitans

metropolitan (plural metropolitans)

  1. In Eastern Orthodoxy, a bishop empowered to oversee other bishops, an archbishop. Their demesne is an Archeparchy.
  2. the inhabitant of a metropolis