metropolitan

[Met`ro*polĀ·i*tan]

The adjective metropolitan describes something that's characteristic of a city. You really enjoy metropolitan life there's always something happening, and you can walk or take the subway anywhere you want to go.

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Of or pertaining to the capital or principal city of a country; as, metropolitan luxury.

Noun
a person who lives in a metropolis

Noun
in the Eastern Orthodox Church this title is given to a position between bishop and patriarch; equivalent to archbishop in western Christianity

Adjective
relating to or characteristic of a metropolis; "metropolitan area"


a.
Of or pertaining to the capital or principal city of a country; as, metropolitan luxury.

a.
Of, pertaining to, or designating, a metropolitan or the presiding bishop of a country or province, his office, or his dignity; as, metropolitan authority.

n.
The superior or presiding bishop of a country or province.

n.
An archbishop.

n.
A bishop whose see is civil metropolis. His rank is intermediate between that of an archbishop and a patriarch.


Metropolitan

Met`ro*pol"i*tan (?; 277), a. [L. metropolitanus: cf. F. m'82tropolitain.] 1. Of or pertaining to the capital or principal city of a country; as, metropolitan luxury. 2. (Eccl.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a metropolitan or the presiding bishop of a country or province, his office, or his dignity; as, metropolitan authority. "Bishops metropolitan." Sir T. More.

Metropolitan

Met`ro*pol"i*tan, n. [LL. metropolitanus.] 1. The superior or presiding bishop of a country or province. 2. (Lat. Church.) An archbishop. 3. (Gr. Church) A bishop whose see is civil metropolis. His rank is intermediate between that of an archbishop and a patriarch. Hook.

Of or pertaining to the capital or principal city of a country; as, metropolitan luxury.

The superior or presiding bishop of a country or province.

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Usage Examples

Housing Works is the coolest thrift store in the world, because not only are they the best thrift store - they're not the most thrifty thrift store - but they have amazing stuff and all of their proceeds go directly to kids, mostly homeless kids, living with AIDS and HIV in New York, in the metropolitan area.

It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art.

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Other Usage Examples

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better than I've ever seen them before.

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.

I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.

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