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metropolitan

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1. metropolitan - Noun

2. metropolitan - Adjective

3. Metropolitan - Proper noun

Meaning

Of or pertaining to the capital or principal city of a country; as, metropolitan luxury.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a metropolitan or the presiding bishop of a country or province, his office, or his dignity; as, metropolitan authority.

The superior or presiding bishop of a country or province.

An archbishop.

A bishop whose see is civil metropolis. His rank is intermediate between that of an archbishop and a patriarch.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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metropolitan area Source: Internet

A 30-year-old unemployed man who stole a doctor’s surgical robe and wore it to pose as a health personnel, duping unsuspecting patients has been convicted by the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly Circuit Court. Source: Internet

A 16-year-old boy was fatally shot Thursday night after a fight over a video game at a home in northeast Las Vegas, the Metropolitan Police Department said. Source: Internet

About 7,000 students are expected to return to school Monday in St. John’s and throughout its greater metropolitan area. Source: Internet

According to Sharma’s advocate Adish Aggarwala, the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of Patiala House Court sent the trio to jail after they were produced at 9.45 p.m. at the end of their police custody. Source: Internet

According to the regional plan, Irkutsk city will be combined with its neighboring industrial towns of Shelekhov and Angarsk to form a metropolitan area with a total population of over a million. Source: Internet

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