metropolitan
/ˌmɛtɹəˈpɑlɪtən/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.18 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop.
noun
The inhabitant of a metropolis.
adj
Pertaining to the see or province of a metropolitan.
adj
Of, or pertaining to, a metropolis or other large urban settlement.
adj
Of or pertaining to the parent state of a colony or territory, or the home country, e.g. metropolitan France
name
The Metropolitan Line of London Underground, which has its ancestry in the Metropolitan Railway.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "She was in love with all the new royal princes and princesses, who entered into family relationship with the imperial family; she had been in love with a metropolitan, with a vicar, and with a priest."
- "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."
- "But the one [letter] in the unknown script and with a metropolitan post mark—could it be from some London Woman? In spite of having lived in the country all her life and for the most part in remote Devon, Miss Tilehurst had always understood that such beings really existed."
- "Policies relating to the elimination of racial discrimination which obtain in metropolitan New Zealand are applicable in the Tokelau Islands."
- "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."
Etymology
From Late Latin metropolitanus, from Ancient Greek μητροπολίτης (mētropolítēs).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: metropolitanus, μητροπολίτης
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌmɛtɹəˈpɑlɪtən/
- British English: /mɛtɹəˈpɒlɪtən/