metropolitan

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The practice in the Orthodox Church is roughly parallel to what is found in Anglicanism, that is, the metropolitan is the primate of an ecclesiastical province (at least in the ideal).

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of a major city: crowded metropolitan streets; a metropolitan newspaper.
  2. adjective Of or constituting a large city or urbanized area, including adjacent suburbs and towns: the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area; a metropolitan county.
  3. adjective Of, relating to, or constituting the home territory of an imperial or colonial state.
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  • "Environmental impact of extractive mining on the Lempa river and its consequences for the metropolitan area of San Salvador," presented on Nov. 17 in the capital. —  Rainforest Portal RSS Newsfeed
  • Plus, it's easier to walk or bike across downtown than in the rest of the metropolitan area. —  Daily Vanguard RSS
  • 'In the metropolitan area of Greater Buenos Aires, the police are lords and masters of the brothels and the drug trade, and they see young people as the enemy,' she said. —  Global Issues News Headlines
  • Though the southwestern Pennsylvania metropolitan area is only the 22nd largest in the United States in terms of population, the city employed energy-efficient construction well ahead of larger cities. —  AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
  • The system supplies 25 percent of the metropolitan area's water. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
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  1. Middle English, of a metropolitan bishop, from Late Latin mētropolītānus, metropolitan, from Greek mētropolītēs, citizen of a metropolis, from mētropolis, mother city; see metropolis.

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  1. = French métropolitan = Spanish Portuguese Italian metropolitano, from Late Latin metropolitans, of a metropolis, from metropolis, a metropolis: see metropolis.
 

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