metropolitan
adjEtymology From Late Latin metropolitanus, from Ancient Greek μητροπολίτης (mētropolítēs).
1
Christianity Pertaining to the see or province of a metropolitan.
2
Of, or pertaining to, a metropolis or other large urban settlement.
- 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.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:
3
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.1974, New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Report on the Tokelau Islands, page 8:
- 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.2015, Wouter Veenendaal, The Dutch Caribbean municipalities in comparative perspective. Island Studies Journal 10(1): 15–30
- Antonyms
- non-metropolitan
- Derived terms
25 terms
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