metropolitan
n. 大都市居民, 都主教, 宗主国的公民 a. 大都市的, 都主教区的, 宗主国的
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教材释义与例句
大城市人；大主教；宗主国的公民
大都市的；大主教辖区的；宗主国的
释义与例句
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1.
A bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop.
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The inhabitant of a metropolis.
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Pertaining to the see or province of a metropolitan.
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Of, or pertaining to, a metropolis or other large urban settlement.
1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London But the one [letter] in the unknown script and with a metropolitan post mark—could it be from some London Woman? In spite of having lived in the country all her life and for the most part in remote Devon, Miss Tilehurst had always understood that such beings really existed.
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Of or pertaining to the parent state of a colony or territory, or the home country, e.g. metropolitan France
the new political status of these islands marks a definite break with the traditional Dutch colonial practice to keep its Caribbean colonies at a distance; and, after 2010, Dutch metropolitan laws and dministrative practices started being implemented on the islands.
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From Late Latin metropolitanus, from Ancient Greek μητροπολίτης (mētropolítēs).
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