English language
Toggle Transcript
metropolitan::noun | Spocien Dictionary
in the Eastern Orthodox Church this title is given to a position between bishop and patriarch; equivalent to archbishop in western Christianity
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | archbishop |
metropolitan:: | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Derivation | metropolis |
metropolitan area.
Examples of metropolitan
metropolitan
The new network went live last weekend in 38 metropolitan areas and 60 airports.
From the bloomberg.com
Service is available in select metropolitan markets, not available in all areas.
From the online.wsj.com
Growth is concentrated in metropolitan areas and in the American West and South.
From the edition.cnn.com
The landfill has been servicing Barcelona's metropolitan area for over 30 years.
From the edition.cnn.com
Four out of 5 Americans live in what the Census Bureau calls metropolitan areas.
From the time.com
In the Chicago metropolitan area, the median price fell 0.5 percent to $190,000.
From the suntimes.com
The rural Navco and Mertz Station sites are now well within metropolitan Mobile.
From the al.com
The index found similar housing woes in the nation's largest metropolitan areas.
From the washingtonpost.com
The metropolitan area's economy has not recovered fully from the long recession.
From the nytimes.com
- In the Eastern Orthodox Church this title is given to a position between bishop and patriarch; equivalent to archbishop in western Christianity
- Relating to or characteristic of a metropolis; "metropolitan area"
- A person who lives in a metropolis
- Metropolitan is a 1935 back-stage drama film interlaced with songs and musical segments from opera.
- Metropolitan are a four-piece indie rock group from Washington, D.C., USA.
- Metropolitan is the first film by director and screenwriter Whit Stillman. It received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay.
- Metropolitan is a science fiction/fantasy novel by Walter Jon Williams, first published in 1995 and nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in the same year. A sequel, City on Fire, was published in 1997.
- In Christian churches with episcopal polity, the rank of metropolitan bishop, or simply metropolitan, pertains to the diocesan bishop or archbishop (then more precisely called metropolitan archbishop) of a metropolis; that is, the chief city of a historical Roman province, ecclesiastical ...
- The Metropolitan (official spelling: MetropolitaN) was a premium train service operated by Deutsche Bahn AG between Cologne and Hamburg in Germany.
