Metropolitan

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop.

   “I knovv God by Miracle can inſtruct Kings, as he rained Mannah, and raiſed the Apoſtles from letterless Fiſher-men, to learned Metropolitans, and profound Doctours.”

2. isim The inhabitant of a metropolis.
3. sıfat Pertaining to the see or province of a metropolitan.
4. sıfat Of, or pertaining to, a metropolis or other large urban settlement.

   “But the one [letter] in the unknown script and with a metropolitan post mark—could it be from some London Woman? In spite of having lived in the country all her life and for the most part in remote Devon, Miss Tilehurst had always understood that such beings really existed.”

5. sıfat Of or pertaining to the parent state of a colony or territory, or the home country, e.g. metropolitan France

   “Policies relating to the elimination of racial discrimination which obtain in metropolitan New Zealand are applicable in the Tokelau Islands.”

6. sıfat Of or pertaining to London, United Kingdom.
7. özel isim The Metropolitan Line of London Underground, which has its ancestry in the Metropolitan Railway.