metropolitan

adjconcerning a city

Synonyms for metropolitan

adj concerning a city

Antonyms for metropolitan

Word Origin & History

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).

In 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.

Example Sentences for metropolitan

This statue, now in the Metropolitan Museum, was found at Pompeii.

But, these are small oases, and I am soon back again in metropolitan Arcadia.

The exchange into the metropolitan monastery was an important event in Sergius's life.

It was their Metropolitan, Suburban, and Brooklyn rolled into one.

Over the metropolitan area, the scene was one beggaring description.

Nathaniel, who had followed him to the side entrance of The Metropolitan, met him there.

On the small daily and weekly, there is little of this, but it is practiced on the metropolitan daily.

My wife copied the tapestry from an original in the Metropolitan Museum.

The afternoon edition of the Metropolitan Planet was going to press.

He deposed the Metropolitan and banished him to a monastery.

metropolitan

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city slicker

civic

cosmopolitan

downtown

municipal

metropolitan

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