METROPOLITAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does metropolitan mean? 

• METROPOLITAN (noun)
  The noun METROPOLITAN has 2 senses:

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

2. a person who lives in a metropolis

  Familiarity information: METROPOLITAN used as a noun is rare.

• METROPOLITAN (adjective)
  The adjective METROPOLITAN has 1 sense:

1. relating to or characteristic of a metropolis

  Familiarity information: METROPOLITAN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• METROPOLITAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("metropolitan" is a kind of...):

archbishop (a bishop of highest rank)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who lives in a metropolis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("metropolitan" is a kind of...):

occupant; occupier; resident (someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there)

• METROPOLITAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or characteristic of a metropolis

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

metropolitan area

Pertainym:

metropolis (people living in a large densely populated municipality)

Derivation:

metropolis (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

 Context examples 

The mosquitoes were collected infected in the metropolitan region of the city of Recife.

(Brazil scientists find out Culex mosquito can transmit Zika, Agência Brasil)

According to the study, 18 of Brazil's 42 metropolitan areas are located in coastal regions or within their influence zone.

(Brazil's coastal cities more vulnerable to climate change, Agência Brasil)

Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the North Sea and from the Rhine River to the Atlantic Ocean.

(Metropolitan France, NCI Thesaurus)

“Without more directly referring to any latent ability that may possibly exist on my part, of wielding the thunderbolt, or directing the devouring and avenging flame in any quarter, I may be permitted to observe, in passing, that my brightest visions are for ever dispelled—that my peace is shattered and my power of enjoyment destroyed—that my heart is no longer in the right place—and that I no more walk erect before my fellow man. The canker is in the flower. The cup is bitter to the brim. The worm is at his work, and will soon dispose of his victim. The sooner the better. But I will not digress. “Placed in a mental position of peculiar painfulness, beyond the assuaging reach even of Mrs. Micawber's influence, though exercised in the tripartite character of woman, wife, and mother, it is my intention to fly from myself for a short period, and devote a respite of eight-and-forty hours to revisiting some metropolitan scenes of past enjoyment. Among other havens of domestic tranquillity and peace of mind, my feet will naturally tend towards the King's Bench Prison. In stating that I shall be (D. V.) on the outside of the south wall of that place of incarceration on civil process, the day after tomorrow, at seven in the evening, precisely, my object in this epistolary communication is accomplished.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others—poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner—young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)