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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Metropolitan \Met`ro*pol"i*tan\ (?; 277), a. [L. metropolitanus: cf. F. m['e]tropolitain.]
Of or pertaining to the capital or principal city of a country; as, metropolitan luxury.
(Eccl.) 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 T. More.
Metropolitan \Met`ro*pol"i*tan\, n. [LL. metropolitanus.]
The superior or presiding bishop of a country or province.
(Lat. Church.) An archbishop.
(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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "bishop having oversight of other bishops," from Late Latin metropolitanus, from Greek metropolis "mother city" (from which others have been colonized), also "capital city," from meter "mother" (see mother (n.1)) + polis "city" (see polis).\n
\nIn Greek, "parent state of a colony;" later, "see of a metropolitan bishop." In the West, the position now roughly corresponds to archbishop, but in the Greek church it ranks above it.
1540s, "belonging to an ecclesiastical metropolis," from Late Latin metropolitanus, from Greek metropolites "resident of a city," from metropolis (see metropolitan (n.)). Meaning "belonging to a chief or capital city" is from 1550s. In reference to underground city railways, it is attested from 1867.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (cx Christianity English) Pertaining to the see or province of a metropolitan. (from 15th c.) 2 Of, or pertaining to, a metropolis or other large urban settlement. (from 16th c.) n. 1 (cx Christianity English) A bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop. (from 14th c.) 2 The inhabitant of a metropolis. (from 18th c.)
WordNet
adj. relating to or characteristic of a metropolis; "metropolitan area"
n. in the Eastern Orthodox Church this title is given to a position between bishop and patriarch; equivalent to archbishop in western Christianity
a person who lives in a metropolis
Wikipedia
Metropolitan is an arcanepunk novel by Walter Jon Williams, first published in 1995 and nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in the same year. A sequel, City on Fire, was published in 1997.
Metropolitan may refer to:
Metropolitan is the debut film by director and screenwriter Whit Stillman. It received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay. The film is often considered the first of a trilogy of Stillman films, followed by Barcelona (1994, but written before Metropolitan) and The Last Days of Disco (1998).
Metropolitan are an American four-piece indie rock group from Washington, D.C..
Metropolitan began as a collaboration between guitarists John Masters and Aidan Coughlan in late 1998, and they recorded and released their debut record, "Side Effects," in 1999. After undergoing several lineup changes since the group's incarnation, Metropolitan became a trio: Saadat Awan and Shyam Telikicherla joined the group. John, Shyam and Saadat played their first gig together in January 2001, and since then have shared the stage with numerous groups across numerous states, including the Dismemberment Plan, the Brian Jonestown Massacre, Bardo Pond, Tristeza, Gogogo Airheart, Wolf Colonel, The Bravery, The Rosebuds, Shout Out Louds, and Bis.
Metropolitan released their second full-length album, "Down For You Is Up," in March 2002. The album was recorded at Inner Ear Studios in Arlington, Virginia and produced by Chad Clark ( Dismemberment Plan, Fugazi, Beauty Pill).
The third full-length, "The Lines They Get Broken," was released in 2005. It was produced by Archie Moore ( Velocity Girl) and Jason Caddell ( Dismemberment Plan).
Continuing to expand, Miguel Lacsamana joined the group in 2005 as well, adding additional guitar and keyboard talent to fill out the live sound.
Metropolitan'' (French:Métropolitain'') is a 1939 French thriller film directed by Maurice Cam and starring Albert Prejean, Ginette Leclerc and André Brulé. The film was remade in Britain the following year as A Window in London with the setting moved to the London Underground.
Metropolitan is a 1935 back-stage drama film interlaced with songs and musical segments from opera.
Directed by Ryszard Bolesławski (credited as Richard Boleslawski), it featured the famous baritone Lawrence Tibbett (in his penultimate movie role), with Virginia Bruce as his leading lady. Tibbett was America's leading baritone and a major star of the New York Metropolitan Opera, where he sang more than 600 times.
Metropolitan was the first production for the 20th Century Fox film studio, which had been newly formed from the merger of Twentieth Century Pictures and Fox Film Corporation.
The Metropolitan (official spelling: MetropolitaN) was a premium passenger train service between the cities of Cologne and Hamburg in Germany. Meant as an alternative to air transport, the first-class-only trains were operated from 1 August 1999 until 11 December 2004 by Metropolitan Express Train GmbH (MET) based in Bad Homburg, a wholly owned subsidiary of the DB Fernverkehr division of Deutsche Bahn AG. Service was discontinued in December 2004 due to low usage and profitability; the custom made coaches are since then deployed in Intercity-Express (ICE) and Intercity traffic.
Usage examples of "metropolitan".
Movements of precious metals and ambulatory currency spiked metropolitan areas, while consumer spending showed up as gangs of small people, one per million, flashing their spending areas and products like dust motes dancing on sunlight.
The worst-case scenario would be that some nation or group was able to spread anthrax from an airplane over a major metropolitan area.
Sir, checking the New York metropolitan area, I find no listing for a Linda Barkey, or Barkay.
Sir, checking the New York metropolitan area, I find no listing for a Linda Barkey, or Bar-kay.
The Metropolitan, in his Easter vestments, had gone up to the laurel-decorated platform under the blossoming lemon tree, and now opened the heavy silver Gospel.
He reached Ai-Menas, strode across the forecourt, and greeted tH old lemon tree, under whose blossoming boughs the Metropolitan celebrated the Resurrection every year.
A seat for a Metropolitan borough, or a love of ortolans, or a taste even for new boots will ruin a man who puts himself in the way of ruin.
Metropolitan magnificence, which, if the parvenu could not equal, he at least could imitate, seemed a poor return for the feudal splendour and impartial festivity of an Hungarian magnate.
The government of the kasir succeeded, by exciting the jealousy of Magyar and German, Croat and Hungarian, metropolitan and provincial, in holding the difficult balance, and in preserving the empire in its integrity from the flood which flowed over it with such disintegrating force.
The Washington area was served by a large metropolitan gas company, which meant that there were not a lot of propane customers in or near the city.
The street has been renumbered since then, but it was in the only house which has a bow-window, upon the left-hand side as you go down from the Metropolitan Station.
Places such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art that passed by her on the right, residing in Central Park.
Let us suppose our ancient monarchy abolished, our independent hierarchy reduced to a stipendiary sect, the gentlemen of England deprived of their magisterial functions, and metropolitan prefects and sub-prefects established in the counties and principal towns, commanding a vigorous and vigilant police, and backed by an army under the immediate orders of a single House of Parliament.
Chief Detective Inspector Bell and Detective Sergeant Tapsell were assigned to the investigation by the Commissioner of Metropolitan Police and proceeded to Sherbome on 30th December.
They are followed by the Right Honourable Joseph Hutchinson, lord mayor of Dublin, his lordship the lord mayor of Cork, their worships the mayors of Limerick, Galway, Sligo and Waterford, twentyeight Irish representative peers, sirdars, grandees and maharajahs bearing the cloth of estate, the Dublin Metropolitan Fire Brigade, the chapter of the saints of finance in their plutocratic order of precedence, the bishop of Down and Connor, His Eminence Michael cardinal Logue, archbishop of Armagh, primate of all Ireland, His Grace, the most reverend Dr William Alexander, archbishop of Armagh, primate of all Ireland, the chief rabbi, the presbyterian moderator, the heads of the baptist, anabaptist, methodist and Moravian chapels and the honorary secretary of the society of friends.