metropolitan
Noun · AdjectiveOpen English WordNet
Adjective (1)
- relating to or characteristic of a metropolis“metropolitan area”Relating to metropolis
Noun (2)
- in the Eastern Orthodox Church this title is given to a position between bishop and patriarch; equivalent to archbishop in western ChristianityType of archbishop
- a person who lives in a metropolisType of resident, occupant
a state or condition markedly different from the norm
Translations
Noun bishop empowered to oversee other bishops
- Spanish
- metropolitano
- French
- métropolite
- German
- Metropolit
- Italian
- metropolita
- Russian
- митрополи́т mitropolít
- Arabic
- مَطْرَان maṭrān
- Polish
- metropolita
- Swedish
- metropolit
- Danish
- metropolit
- Esperanto
- metropolito
3 more languages
- Finnish
- metropoliitta
- Georgian
- მიტროპოლიტი miṭroṗoliṭi
- Romanian
- mitropolit
Adjective pertaining to a metropolis
- Spanish
- metropolitano
- French
- métropolitain
- German
- großstädtisch
- Italian
- metropolitano
- Portuguese
- metropolitano
- Russian
- столи́чный stolíčnyj
- Japanese
- 大都市の daitoshi no
- Polish
- metropolitalny
- Greek
- μητροπολίτης mitropolítis
- Hungarian
- nagyvárosi
4 more languages
- Portuguese (PT)
- metropolitano
- Catalan
- metropolità
- Czech
- metropolitní
- Esperanto
- metropolita
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L. metropolitanus: cf. F. métropolitain.
1. Of or pertaining to the capital or principal city of a country; as, metropolitan luxury.
2. Church Of, pertaining to, or designating, a metropolitan or the presiding bishop of a country or province, his office, or his dignity; as, metropolitan authority. “Bishops metropolitan.” Sir Thomas More
Origin: LL. metropolitanus.
1. The superior or presiding bishop of a country or province.
2. Lat. Church. An archbishop.
3. Gr. Church A bishop whose see is a civil metropolis. His rank is intermediate between that of an archbishop and a patriarch; as, the metropolitan of Constantinople. Hook, Walter Farquhar
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54