metropolitan

UK /mɛtɹəˈpɒlɪtən/ US /ˌmɛtɹəˈpɑlɪtən/

adj 4noun 2name 1

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ADJ.

based, fastest-growing, huge, most, multiple, new, new, populous

The fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the country are attracting young professionals seeking job opportunities.

VERB + METROPOLITAN

approaching, become, linked, links, obtain, struck

The new highway links the rural towns to the metropolitan center downtown.

METROPOLITAN + NOUN

area, areas, art, government, himself, laws, life, london

The metropolitan area has grown significantly over the past decade.

PREP.

after, in, in, on, with

The company decided to expand its operations in metropolitan areas across the country.

ADV.

closely

The city's public transport system is closely modeled on metropolitan standards from other major cities.

Definitions

noun

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.

adj

Pertaining to the see or province of a metropolitan.

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. metropolitan France

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.

adj

Of or pertaining to London, United Kingdom.

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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.

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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

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Policies relating to the elimination of racial discrimination which obtain in metropolitan New Zealand are applicable in the Tokelau Islands.

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The flu struck the metropolitan area.

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