metropolitan
adjective/ˌmetrəˈpɒlɪtən/
/ˌmetrəˈpɑːlɪtən/
[only before noun]- (also North American English, informal metro)connected with a major city
- the New York metropolitan area
- metropolitan districts/regions
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- connected with a particular country rather than with the other regions of the world that the country controls
- metropolitan France/Spain
Word Originlate Middle English (in the ecclesiastical sense): from late Latin metropolitanus, from Greek mētropolitēs ‘citizen of a mother state’, from mētropolis ‘mother state’, from mētēr, mētr- ‘mother’ + polis ‘city’.
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