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Meaning of Metropolitan | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Standard
mɛtɹəˈpɒlɪtən

Definitions

  1. Of or pertaining to London, United Kingdom
  2. A bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop.
  3. The Metropolitan Line of London Underground, which has its ancestry in the Metropolitan Railway.
  4. The Metropolitan Line of London Underground, which has its ancestry in the Metropolitan Railway
  5. The inhabitant of a metropolis.

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Examples

“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.”
“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.”

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