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met·ro·pol·i·tan | \ ˌme-trə-ˈpä-lə-tən 
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\Definition of metropolitan
(Entry 1 of 2)
1 : the primate of an ecclesiastical province
2 : one who lives in a metropolis or displays metropolitan manners or customs
metropolitan
adjectiveDefinition of metropolitan (Entry 2 of 2)
1 : of or constituting a metropolitan or his see
2 : of, relating to, or characteristic of a metropolis and sometimes including its suburbs
3 : of, relating to, or constituting a mother country as distinguished from a colony
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Synonyms & Antonyms for metropolitan
Synonyms: Noun
Antonyms: Noun
- bumpkin,
- hick,
- provincial,
- rustic,
- yokel
Examples of metropolitan in a Sentence
Noun
a TV series about the lives and loves of a group of young, attractive metropolitans Adjective
the greater New York metropolitan area
This is one of the best seafood restaurants in metropolitan Los Angeles.
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Recent Examples on the Web: Noun But truly rural areas are a relatively small slice of the electorate: In 2016, only 14 percent of all voters cast ballots in counties defined by the Census Bureau as non-metropolitan.
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David Wasserman, NBC News, "Re-election runway: What U.S. airports can tell us about Trump's 2020 chances," 28 Oct. 2019 Brexit devolved into an identity war: an English counter-revolution between nationalists and internationalists, country geezers versus young metropolitans, Little England versus Great Britain.
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Tina Brown, Time, "Tina Brown: How Britain Lost the Plot Over Brexit," 6 June 2019 The new list ranks the country's 125 largest metropolitan areas based on affordability, job prospects and quality of life.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Enquirer Staff, Cincinnati.com, "Week in Review: It's blue ice cream season, wacky weather and more," 13 Apr. 2018 Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective Cass County, which contains the Fargo metropolitan area, reported 10 of the 89 new positive cases Wednesday.
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USA TODAY, "NYC taxis, Fisher Cats, casinos: News from around our 50 states," 31 July 2020 The Rose Festival, which started in 1907, connects the present to the past in a way that offers meaning to people who call this metropolitan area home.
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oregonlive, "Portland’s Rose Festival queen is crowned in a celebration of ‘the beauty within each of us’," 30 July 2020 By Tuesday, as the daily tally reached a new state record of 191, Andrews extended the lockdown across the entire metropolitan area.
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Jason Scott, Bloomberg.com, "The Mistakes That Pushed an Australian City Back Into Lockdown," 11 July 2020 Other numbers about Michigan's movement: Clinton County, which is in the Lansing metropolitan area, is tied at 66% as well.
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Nisa Khan, Detroit Free Press, "Where Michigan didn't — and did — stay home on the Fourth of July weekend," 9 July 2020 More in Police Reform & Racial Justice Four of the seven people arrested are from the Portland metropolitan area.
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CBS News, "7 Portland protesters face federal charges for defacing courthouse, assaulting officers," 8 July 2020 Four of the seven people arrested are from the Portland metropolitan area.
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Washington Post, "Federal charges filed for 7 protesters in Portland, Oregon," 7 July 2020 But the Madrid metropolitan area, the hardest-hit in the country by Covid-19, had more than 10% prevalence, and densely urban Barcelona had 7%, while many other coastal provinces had far lower rates.
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Al Goodman, CNN, "Spain's coronavirus antibodies study adds evidence against herd immunity," 6 July 2020 New Mexico is the fifth-largest state by area, and is sparsely populated, with nearly half of the state’s 2.1 million residents living in the Albuquerque metropolitan area.
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Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, "New Mexico: Images of the Land of Enchantment," 5 July 2020
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metropolitan
adjectiveEnglish Language Learners Definition of metropolitan
: of or relating to a large city and the surrounding cities and towns
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metropolitan
adjectivemet·ro·pol·i·tan | \ ˌme-trə-ˈpä-lə-tən \
\Kids Definition of metropolitan
: of, relating to, or like that of a large city
a metropolitan area
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The first known use of metropolitan was in the 14th century
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