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Synonyms & Antonyms for metropolitan
Synonyms: Noun
city slicker, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, slicker, sophisticate
Antonyms: Noun
bumpkin, hick, provincial, rustic, yokel
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Examples of metropolitan in a Sentence
Noun
a TV series about the lives and loves of a group of young, attractive metropolitansAdjective
the greater New York metropolitan area This is one of the best seafood restaurants in metropolitan Los Angeles.
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The new list ranks the country's 125 largest metropolitan areas based on affordability, job prospects and quality of life. — Enquirer Staff, Cincinnati.com, "Week in Review: It's blue ice cream season, wacky weather and more," 13 Apr. 2018 The new list ranks the country's 125 largest metropolitan areas based on affordability, job prospects and quality of life. — Enquirer Staff, Cincinnati.com, "Week in Review: It's blue ice cream season, wacky weather and more," 13 Apr. 2018 The new list ranks the country's 125 largest metropolitan areas based on affordability, job prospects and quality of life. — Enquirer Staff, Cincinnati.com, "Week in Review: It's blue ice cream season, wacky weather and more," 13 Apr. 2018 The new list ranks the country's 125 largest metropolitan areas based on affordability, job prospects and quality of life. — Enquirer Staff, Cincinnati.com, "Week in Review: It's blue ice cream season, wacky weather and more," 13 Apr. 2018 The new list ranks the country's 125 largest metropolitan areas based on affordability, job prospects and quality of life. — Enquirer Staff, Cincinnati.com, "Week in Review: It's blue ice cream season, wacky weather and more," 13 Apr. 2018 The new list ranks the country's 125 largest metropolitan areas based on affordability, job prospects and quality of life. — Enquirer Staff, Cincinnati.com, "Week in Review: It's blue ice cream season, wacky weather and more," 13 Apr. 2018 The new list ranks the country's 125 largest metropolitan areas based on affordability, job prospects and quality of life. — Enquirer Staff, Cincinnati.com, "Week in Review: It's blue ice cream season, wacky weather and more," 13 Apr. 2018 The new list ranks the country's 125 largest metropolitan areas based on affordability, job prospects and quality of life. — Enquirer Staff, Cincinnati.com, "Week in Review: It's blue ice cream season, wacky weather and more," 13 Apr. 2018Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective
The Brooklyn rally presented the first real-time, IRL answer to this question of who exactly wants Bernie Sanders to be president in 2020, in the New York metropolitan area, at least. — Bridget Read, Vogue, "Who’s Afraid of the Bernie Bros?," 4 Mar. 2019 The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller National Home Price Index, which measures average home prices in major metropolitan areas across the nation, rose 4.7% in the year ending in December. — Sarah Chaney, WSJ, "Slowing Home Price Growth and Construction Hit Housing Market," 26 Feb. 2019 Check out Zillow's full report to see where your closest metropolitan area stands. — Elizabeth Gulino, House Beautiful, "You Could Make $1,600 More If You Sell Your House During This Month," 21 Feb. 2019 Note: Based on 1,650 interviews, with a margin of error of 2.5%, representing approximately 65% of the population of Brazilian metropolitan regions, according to data from the 2010 Census. — Samantha Pearson, WSJ, "In Latin America, Awash in Crime, Citizens Impose Their Own Brutal Justice," 6 Dec. 2018 The unemployment rate in the Sacramento metropolitan region fell to 3.3 percent in May, the lowest it’s been since 1990, according to state data. — Molly Sullivan, sacbee, "Unemployment rate in Sacramento region falls to all-time low," 15 June 2018 Meanwhile, the housing industry—with its range of national to regional to small builders—produced 16,000 units last year in the Austin metropolitan region. — Anthony Alofsin, The Atlantic, "A Defense of the Suburbs," 6 June 2018 It was mandated in 24 metropolitan regions by HUD under President Barrack Obama but lagged in court before going into effect last month. — Julia Terruso, Philly.com, "With new rental vouchers, better neighborhoods now more affordable," 15 May 2018 Philip Krim, chief executive officer of Casper, said mattress delivery can be as quick as same-day for some metropolitan regions to a few days for other regions. — Debbie Carlson, chicagotribune.com, "Bed in a box: Is buying a mattress online right for you?," 27 Mar. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'metropolitan.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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