metropolitan

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mɛtɹəˈpɒlɪtən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mɛtɹɵˈpɑlɨtən/

Noun

metropolitan (plural metropolitans)

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

Translations

bishop empowered to oversee other bishops

• Armenian: մետրապոլիտ (hy) (metrapolit)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大主教 (zh) (dàzhǔjiào)

• Danish: (in Orthodox Church) metropolit c
• Finnish: metropoliitta (fi)
• Italian: metropolita (it) m

• Norwegian: byregion (no)
• Polish: metropolita (pl) m
• Romanian: mitropolit (ro) m
• Russian: митрополи́т (ru) m (mitropolít)
• Spanish: metropolitano m
• Swedish: metropolit (sv) 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.]

Antonyms

• non-metropolitan

Translations

pertaining to a metropolis

• 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:

  大都市の (だいとしの, daitoshino); referring 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

• Latin: metropolitanus
• Norwegian: (Metropolitan bishop in Orthodox Church) metropolitt
• Polish: metropolitalny, stołeczny (pl)
• Portuguese: metropolitano (pt)
• Russian: центра́льный (ru) (centrálʹnyj), столи́чный (ru) (stolíčnyj)
• Spanish: metropolitano

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Adjective

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

1. metropolitan