metropolitan
nounEtymology
From Late Latin metropolitanus, from Ancient Greek μητροπολίτης (mētropolítēs).
- derived from μητροπολίτης
- derived from metropolitanus
Definitions
A bishop empowered to oversee other bishops
A bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop.
- 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 inhabitant of a metropolis.
Pertaining to the see or province of a metropolitan.
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Of, or pertaining to, a metropolis or other large urban settlement.
Of or pertaining to the parent state of a colony or territory, or the home country, e.g.…
Of or pertaining to the parent state of a colony or territory, or the home country, e.g. metropolitan France
- Policies relating to the elimination of racial discrimination which obtain in metropolitan New Zealand are applicable in the Tokelau Islands.
Of or pertaining to London, United Kingdom.
The Metropolitan Line of London Underground, which has its ancestry in the Metropolitan…
The Metropolitan Line of London Underground, which has its ancestry in the Metropolitan Railway.
The neighborhood
- antonymnon-metropolitan
Derived
Delaware Valley Metropolitan Area, extrametropolitan, Kamrup Metropolitan, metroplex, metropolitan area, metropolitan area network, metropolitanate, metropolitan borough, metropolitan city, metropolitan core, metropolitan county, metropolitan elite, metropolitanise, metropolitanism, metropolitanize, metropolitanly, metropolitanship, metrosexual, micropolitan, nonmetropolitan, perimetropolitan, ruralpolitan, Santiago Metropolitan Region, submetropolitan, unmetropolitan
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at metropolitan. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at metropolitan. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at metropolitan
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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