Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - metropolitan
Metropolitan
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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I. noun Date: 14th century the primate of an ecclesiastical province, one who lives in a metropolis or displays ~ manners or customs, II. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin ~us of the see of a ~, from metropolita, noun, ~, from Late Greek mētropolitēs, from mētropolis see of a ~, from Greek, capital Date: 15th century of or constituting a ~ or his see, of, relating to, or characteristic of a metropolis and sometimes including its suburbs, of, relating to, or constituting a mother country as distinguished from a colony ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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