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    metropolitan查询结果如下:

    音标:[ˌmetrə'pɑːlɪtən]
    名词复数:metropolitans 词频:高频常用词
    基本释义/说明:adj.大都市的;大主教区的
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    a.
    ①首都的,首府的;大城市的;
    the metropolitan police
    首都警察.
    metropolitan life
    大城市的生活.
    the Metropolitan Railway
    [英]伦敦地下铁道.
    ②【宗】大主教教区的;
    metropolitan bishop
    大(总)主教(在其教区中有权管辖各主教者).
    ③宗主国的;
    Metropolitan France
    法国本土.
    the metropolitan state
    宗主国。
    n.
    ①大城市人;有大城市气派的人;
    ②[Metropolitan] 大主教
    -扩展释义
    扩展解释:
    a.1. 大都市的,2. (基督教)大主教辖区的,3. 宗主国的;宗主城市的,n.[C]1. 大城市人,2. (常大写)(基督教的)大主教
    adj. 【建筑工程】
    都市的,大城市的,母国的;大都市的人,母国的居民,大主教
    adj. 【法律专业】
    本土
    N/A
    天主教等)都主教(指首都、大都会的主教)
    -metropolitan的不同词性形态

    形容词 变体/同根词

    Metropolitan.
    Focusing on a metropolis, or large city.

    名词 变体/同根词

    metrocentric attitudes and practices
    The quality or state of being metropolitan.
    “This attitude condemns Sydney, with all its potential for stylish metropolitanism, to dozy provincialism.”
    “Mrs. Gammit felt abashed at her ignorance, but gratified, at the same time, by the reproach of metropolitanism.”
    “The film uses homosexuality to examine a rapidly changing society within Russia, where modernity and metropolitanism are colliding with traditional culture.”
    The see of a metropolitan bishop.
    “But then came the official denial from the Varna metropolitanate that Kiril had resigned from the Synod.”
    “Dioceses of Subotica and Zrenjanin entered the newly formed Metropolitanate of Belgrade.”
    (US) A large metropolitan area containing several cities and their suburbs.
    “We look forward to displaying the logo widely throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex and to our international outlets.”
    “No one was thrilled to see all those chemicals going up into the already questionable air we breathe here in the metroplex.”
    “Not long, I’ll bet, when it becomes apparent that the metroplex has not been brought back into compliance by these measures.”
    A metropolis; the main city of a country or area. [from 15th c.] || The parent-state of a colony. [from 19th c.] || (now rare) A bishop’s see. [from 19th c.]
    “State monopolies or privileged private companies secure strategic resources and keep open the conduits that provide money to the metropole.”
    “Returning to September 1959, he already felt that the only chance left for a French Algeria was action in the metropole.”
    “Instead they built and lost an empire, and millions of former subjects came to the metropole to make their home as citizens.”

    动词 变体/同根词

    metropolitanize的异体字
    (transitive) To make metropolitan; to adapt to the norms of a metropolis.
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