| 单词 | metropolitan |
| 释义 | metropolitan adj. & n. --adj 1. of or relating to a metropolis, esp. as distinct from its environs (metropolitan New York). 2. belonging to, forming or forming part of, a mother country as distinct from its colonies etc. (metropolitan France). 3. of an ecclesiastical metropolis. --n 1. (in full metropolitan bishop) a bishop having authority over the bishops of a province, in the Western Church equivalent to archbishop, in the Orthodox Church ranking above archbishop and below patriarch. 2. an inhabitant of a metropolis. Phrases and idioms metropolitan county hist. (in England) each of six units of local government centred on a large urban area (in existence 1974-86). metropolitan magistrate Brit. a paid professional magistrate in London (cf. stipendiary magistrate). Derivatives metropolitanate n. (in sense 1 of n.). metropolitanism n. Etymology: ME f. LL metropolitanus f. Gk metropolites (as METROPOLIS) |
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