1
- of, relating to, or denoting a metropolis大都会的, 大城市的; 有大城市气派的：
the Boston metropolitan area.
波士顿大都会区。
2
- of, relating to, or denoting the parent state of a colony or dependency（与）宗主国（有关）的：
metropolitan Spain.
作为殖民者来源地的西班牙。
3
- Christian Church of, relating to, or denoting a metropolitan or his see【基督教】都主教的; 都主教教区的：
a metropolitan bishop.
都主教区主教。
1
- Christian Church a bishop having authority over the bishops of a province, in particular (in many Orthodox Churches) one ranking above archbishop and below patriarch【基督教】都主教（省级主教的上级, 尤指许多东正教教会中高于大主教低于牧首的主教）。
2
- an inhabitant of a metropolis大城市人; 都会居民：
the sophisticated metropolitan.
世故的都市人。
派生词
metropolitanate
noun （限名词义项1）metropolitanism
nounmetropolitical
adjective （限名词义项1）词源
late Middle English (in the ecclesiastical sense)： from late Latin metropolitanus, from Greek mētropolitēs 'citizen of a mother state'， from mētropolis （see METROPOLIS）.