metropolitan
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Late Latin metropolitanus, from Ancient Greek μητροπολίτης (metropolitēs).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
metropolitan (plural metropolitans)
- (Christianity) A bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop. [from 14th c.]
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 514:
- 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 2010, p. 514:
- The inhabitant of a metropolis. [from 18th c.]
Adjective[edit]
metropolitan (comparative more metropolitan, superlative most metropolitan)
- (Christianity) Pertaining to the see or province of a metropolitan. [from 15th c.]
- Of, or pertaining to, a metropolis or other large urban settlement. [from 16th c.]
Translations[edit]
pertaining to a metropolis
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