| 释义 |
metropolitan/metrəˈpɒlit(ə)n/ adj. & n.●adj. 1 of or relating to a metropolis, esp. as distinct from its environs (尤有别于近郊的) (有关)大都市的 metropolitan New York 纽约市区 2 belonging to, forming or forming part of, a mother country as distinct from its colonies etc. (有别于殖民地等的)属于(组成)宗主国的；宗主城市的 metropolitan France 作为宗主国的法国 3 of an ecclesiastical metropolis 教会中心的 ●n. 1 (in full 全称 metropolitan bishop) a bishop having authority over the bishops of a province, in the Western Church equivalent to archbishop, in the Orthodox Church ranking above archbishop and below patriarch 都主教 2 an inhabitant of a metropolis 大都市的人 □ metropolitanate n. (in sense 1 of n. 用于名词释义 1)□ metropolitanism n.[Middle English via Late Latin metropolitanus from Greek mētropolitēs (as METROPOLIS)] |