Metropolitan

Quick meaning: Metropolitan is a noun meaning (Christianity) A bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop.

Meaning

(Christianity) A bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop.

More Meanings

1. The inhabitant of a metropolis.
2. (Christianity) Pertaining to the see or province of a metropolitan.
3. Of, or pertaining to, a metropolis or other large urban settlement.
4. Of or pertaining to the parent state of a colony or territory, or the home country, e.g. metropolitan France

Example Sentences

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

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• metropolitans

Antonyms for metropolitan

Common opposites include non-metropolitan.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include diocese, cosmopolitan, municipal, local, town, city.

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