Definizione monolingua

metropolitan

metropolitan (plural metropolitans)

1. (Christianity) A bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop. [from 14th c.]
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 514:

     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.

2. The inhabitant of a metropolis. [from 18th c.]

metropolitan (comparative more metropolitan, superlative most metropolitan)

1. (Christianity) Pertaining to the see or province of a metropolitan. [from 15th c.]
2. Of, or pertaining to, a metropolis or other large urban settlement. [from 16th c.]

Definizione dizionario metropolitan

	metropolitano
	pertaining to a metropolis

	urbano
	Related to the (any) city.

Altri significati:

metropolitan (i.e. established by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government)

of, or pertaining to, a metropolis or other large urban settlement.

the inhabitant of a metropolis

In Eastern Orthodoxy, a bishop empowered to oversee other bishops, an archbishop. Their demesne is an Archeparchy.

In the Eastern Orthodox Church a title given to a position between bishop and patriarch; equivalent to archbishop in western Christianity.

Relating to or characteristic of a metropolis.