Usually means: Large urban area, surrounding cities.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. metropolitan: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. metropolitan: Merriam-Webster
  3. metropolitan: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. metropolitan: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. metropolitan: Collins English Dictionary
  6. metropolitan: Vocabulary.com
  7. Metropolitan, metropolitan: Wordnik
  8. metropolitan: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Metropolitan, metropolitan: Wiktionary
  10. metropolitan: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. metropolitan: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. metropolitan: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Metropolitan, metropolitan: Dictionary.com
  14. metropolitan: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. metropolitan: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Metropolitan (band), Metropolitan (disambiguation), Metropolitan (novel), Metropolitan (train), Metropolitan, The Metropolitan (ATC), The Metropolitan (Rochester), The Metropolitan (newspaper): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Metropolitan: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. metropolitan: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. metropolitan: Rhymezone
  20. Metropolitan: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. metropolitan: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. metropolitan: FreeDictionary.org
  23. metropolitan: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  24. metropolitan: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. metropolitan: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. Metropolitan: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Metropolitan: Energy Dictionary
  2. metropolitan: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. metropolitan: Encyclopedia

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Metropolitan: Catholic Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. metropolitan: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Metropolitan)

▸ noun:  (Orthodox Christianity) A bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop.
▸ noun:  The inhabitant of a metropolis.
▸ adjective:  (Orthodox Christianity) Pertaining to the see or province of a metropolitan.
▸ adjective:  Of, or pertaining to, a metropolis or other large urban settlement.
▸ adjective:  Of or pertaining to the parent state of a colony or territory, or the home country, e.g. metropolitan France
▸ adjective:  (England, dated) Of or pertaining to London, United Kingdom.
▸ noun:  (rail transport) The Metropolitan Line of London Underground, which has its ancestry in the Metropolitan Railway.

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metropolis, Urban, suburban, micropolitan, city, nonmetropolitan, cosmopolitan, metropolis, conurbation, metro, more...

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rural, provincial, rustic, pastoral, country

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cosmopolitan, urbane, sophisticated, chic, fashionable, stylish, more...

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metropolitan area, metropolitan areas, metropolitan museum, Metropolitan Opera, Metropolitan Police, more...

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non, new, first, principal, interborough, syrian, late, own, old, present, former

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Similar:
metropolis, Urban, suburban, micropolitan, city, nonmetropolitan, cosmopolitan, metropolis, conurbation, metro, more...

Opposite:
rural, provincial, rustic, pastoral, country

Types:
cosmopolitan, urbane, sophisticated, chic, fashionable, stylish, more...

Phrases:
metropolitan area, metropolitan areas, metropolitan museum, Metropolitan Opera, Metropolitan Police, metropolitan France, metropolitan district, metropolitan city, metropolitan counties, more...

Adjectives:
non, new, first, principal, interborough, syrian, late, own, old, present, former

Colors:
    charcoal,     graphite,     concrete,     pewter,     gunmetal, more...



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