metropolitan

See also: Metropolitan

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mɛ.tɹəˈpɒ.lɪ.tən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mɛ.tɹəˈpɑ.lɪ.tən/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɒlɪtən
• Hyphenation: me‧tro‧po‧li‧tan

Noun

metropolitan (plural metropolitans)

1. (Orthodox Christianity) A bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop. [from 15th c.]

   Synonym: metropolitan bishop

   • 1663, Edward Waterhous [i.e., Edward Waterhouse], 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:

     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.

   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 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.]

Translations

bishop empowered to oversee other bishops

• Arabic: مُطْرَان m (muṭrān), مِطْرَان m (miṭrān), مَطْرَان m (maṭrān)
• Armenian: մետրապոլիտ (hy) (metrapolit)
• Belarusian: мітрапалі́т m (mitrapalít)
• Bulgarian: митрополи́т m (mitropolít)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大主教 (zh) (dàzhǔjiào)

• Danish: (in Orthodox Church) metropolit c
• Esperanto: metropolito (eo)
• Finnish: metropoliitta (fi)
• Italian: metropolita (it) m
• Macedonian: митропо́лит m (mitropólit)
• Malayalam: മെത്രാൻ (ml) (metrāṉ)
• Polish: metropolita (pl) m
• Romanian: mitropolit (ro) m
• Russian: митрополи́т (ru) m (mitropolít)
• Spanish: metropolitano m
• Swedish: metropolit (sv) c
• Ukrainian: митрополи́т m (mytropolýt)

Adjective

metropolitan (comparative more metropolitan, superlative most metropolitan)

1. (Orthodox 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.]
3. Of or pertaining to the parent state of a colony or territory, or the home country, e.g. metropolitan France
   • 1974, New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Report on the Tokelau Islands, page 8:

     Policies relating to the elimination of racial discrimination which obtain in metropolitan New Zealand are applicable in the Tokelau Islands.

   • 2015, Wouter Veenendaal, The Dutch Caribbean municipalities in comparative perspective. Island Studies Journal 10(1): 15–30:

     the new political status of these islands marks a definite break with the traditional Dutch colonial practice to keep its Caribbean colonies at a distance; and, after 2010, Dutch metropolitan laws and dministrative practices started being implemented on the islands.

Antonyms

• non-metropolitan

Derived terms

• metropolitan area
• metropolitan area network
• metropolitan borough
• metropolitan city
• metropolitan core
• metropolitan county
• metropolitan elite

 

Translations

pertaining to the see or province of a metropolitan

• Syrian Arabic: (Syria) مطراني m

pertaining to a metropolis

• Bulgarian: столичен (bg) (stoličen)
• Catalan: metropolità (ca)
• Czech: metropolitní
• Esperanto: metropolita (eo)
• Finnish: suurkaupunkilainen
• French: métropolitain (fr), urbain (fr)
• Greek: (Metropolitan bishop in Orthodox Church) μητροπολίτης (el) (mitropolítis)
• Irish: uirbeach
• Italian: metropolitano (it)
• Japanese: 都立 (ja) (toritsu)
• Latin: metropolitanus
• Norwegian: (Metropolitan bishop in Orthodox Church) metropolitt
• Polish: metropolitalny (pl), stołeczny (pl)
• Portuguese: metropolitano (pt)
• Russian: центра́льный (ru) (centrálʹnyj), столи́чный (ru) (stolíčnyj)
• Spanish: metropolitano

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Japanese:

  ^{(please verify)} 大都市の (daitoshino) (だいとしの); referring to large urban ???

  ^{(please verify)} 府主教 (fushukyō) (ふしゅきょう); Metropolitan bishop in Orthodox Church

  ^{(please verify)} 首都大司教 (shutodaishikyō) (しゅとだいしきょう); Metropolitan bishop in Catholic Church

Ladin

Adjective

metropolitan m (feminine singular metropolitana, masculine plural metropolitans, feminine plural metropolitanes)

1. metropolitan

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French métropolitain.

Noun

metropolitan n (plural metropolitane)

1. (dated) metro, subway, underground

Declension

Declension of metropolitan

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) metropolitan	metropolitanul	(niște) metropolitane	metropolitanele
genitive/dative	(unui) metropolitan	metropolitanului	(unor) metropolitane	metropolitanelor
vocative	metropolitanule		metropolitanelor