metropolitan

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Etymology

From Late Latin metropolitanus, from Ancient Greek μητροπολίτης (metropolitēs).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /mɛtɹəˈpɒlɪtən/

Noun

metropolitan (plural metropolitans)

1. (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.

2. The inhabitant of a metropolis. [from 18th c.]

Adjective

metropolitan (comparative more metropolitan, superlative most metropolitan)

1. (Christianity) Pertaining to the see or province of a metropolitan. [from 15th c.]
2. Of, or pertaining to, a metropolis or other large urban settlement. [from 16th c.]

Translations

pertaining to a metropolis

Czech: metropolitní (cs) Danish: (Metropolitan bishop in Orthodox Church) metropolit (da) m. Esperanto: metropolita (eo) French: métropolitain (fr), urbain (fr) Greek: (Metropolitan bishop in Orthodox Church) μητροπολίτης (el) m. Irish: uirbeach (ga) Italian: metropolitano (it)

Japanese: 大都市の (だいとしの, daitoshino); refering to large urban 府主教 (ふしゅきょう, fushukyō); Metropolitan bishop in Orthodox Church 首都大司教 (しゅとだいしきょう, shutodaishikyō); Metropolitan bishop in Catholic Church Norwegian: (Metropolitan bishop in Orthodox Church) metropolitt (no) m. Spanish: metropolitano (es) m., metropolitana (es) f.