# metropolitan
## English
### Etymology

From Late Latin metropolitanus, from Ancient Greek μητροπολίτης (mētropolítēs).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /mɛtɹəˈpɒlɪt(ə)n/
* (General American) IPA: /mɛtɹəˈpɑlɪt(ə)n/, [-ɾ(ə)n]
* Audio (General American):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒlɪtən
* Hyphenation: me‧tro‧po‧lit‧an

### Noun

metropolitan (plural metropolitans)
* (Orthodox Christianity) A bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop. [from 15th c.]
    Synonym: metropolitan bishop
** 1663, Edward Waterhous [i.e., Edward Waterhouse], chapter I, in Fortescutus Illustratus; or A Commentary on that Nervous Treatise De Laudibus Legum Angliæ, Written by Sir John Fortescue Knight, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Roycroft for Thomas Dicas […], →OCLC, page 38: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.
** 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 514: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. [from 18th c.]

#### Translations
### Adjective

metropolitan (comparative more metropolitan, superlative most metropolitan)
* (Orthodox Christianity) Pertaining to the see or province of a metropolitan. [from 15th c.]
* Of, or pertaining to, a metropolis or other large urban settlement. [from 16th c.]
    Coordinate term: micropolitan
* Of or pertaining to the parent state of a colony or territory, or the home country, e.g. metropolitan France
** 1974, New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Report on the Tokelau Islands, page 8:Policies relating to the elimination of racial discrimination which obtain in metropolitan New Zealand are applicable in the Tokelau Islands.
** 2015, Wouter Veenendaal, The Dutch Caribbean municipalities in comparative perspective. Island Studies Journal 10(1): 15–30:
    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.

#### Antonyms

* non-metropolitan

#### Derived terms

* metropolitan area
* metropolitan area network
* metropolitan borough
* metropolitan city
* metropolitan core
* metropolitan county
* metropolitan elite
* Santiago Metropolitan Region

#### Translations

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## Indonesian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English metropolitan, from Late Latin metropolitanus, from Ancient Greek μητροπολίτης (mētropolítēs).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /mətropoˈlitan/ [mət̪̚.ro.poˈli.t̪an]
* Rhymes: -itan
* Syllabification: met‧ro‧po‧li‧tan

### Adjective

metropolitan
* metropolitan

### Noun

metropolitan (plural metropolitan-metropolitan)
* metropolitan

### Further reading

* “metropolitan” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Ladin
### Adjective

metropolitan m (feminine singular metropolitana, masculine plural metropolitans, feminine plural metropolitanes)
* metropolitan

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French métropolitain.

### Noun

metropolitan n (plural metropolitane)
* (dated) metro, subway, underground