metropolitan

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /mɛtɹəˈpɒlɪtən/|[-tn̩]    美 /ˌmɛtɹəˈpɑlɪtən/|[-ɾən]|[-ɾn̩]|/ˌmetɹəˈpɔlɪtən/|/ˌmetɹəˈpɒlɪtən/|[-ɾən]|[-ɾn̩]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop.
    — 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.
  2. The inhabitant of a metropolis.
形容词 adj.
  1. Pertaining to the see or province of a metropolitan.
  2. Of, or pertaining to, a metropolis or other large urban settlement.
    — But the one [letter] in the unknown script and with a metropolitan post mark—could it be from some London Woman? In spite of having lived in the country all her life and for the most part in remote Devon, Miss Tilehurst had always understood that such beings really existed.
  3. Of or pertaining to the parent state of a colony or territory, or the home country, e.g. metropolitan France
    — Policies relating to the elimination of racial discrimination which obtain in metropolitan New Zealand are applicable in the Tokelau Islands.

词形变化

metropolitans plural more metropolitan comparative most metropolitan superlative

词汇关系

反义词
non-metropolitan
衍生词
Delaware Valley Metropolitan Area extrametropolitan Kamrup Metropolitan metroplex metropolitan area metropolitan area network metropolitanate metropolitan borough metropolitan city metropolitan core metropolitan county metropolitan elite metropolitanise metropolitanism metropolitanize metropolitanly metropolitanship metrosexual micropolitan nonmetropolitan perimetropolitan ruralpolitan Santiago Metropolitan Region submetropolitan unmetropolitan

词源

词源 1
From Late Latin metropolitanus, from Ancient Greek μητροπολίτης (mētropolítēs).
词源 2
From Late Latin metropolitanus, from Ancient Greek μητροπολίτης (mētropolítēs).
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