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Metropolitan describes anything related to a big city, especially the whole city area including the parts just outside its center — 'the metropolitan area of ' includes plus the nearby towns closely connected to it. It can also describe a lifestyle or attitude that feels modern, international, and city-based — a 'metropolitan' person is someone comfortable with city life and different cultures.
大都市的、大都會的
組成It comes from Greek 'metropolis' — 'meter' (mother) + 'polis' (city) — literally 'mother city', the main city that other towns grew from or depend on.
同家族的字
- metropolisthe noun this word comes from, meaning 'a large, important city'
- policeshares the Greek root 'polis' (city) — early police forces were about keeping order in a city
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Metropolitanadj
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datedOf or pertaining to London, United Kingdom.
Metropolitanname
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rail-transportrailwaystransportThe Metropolitan Line of London Underground, which has its ancestry in the Metropolitan Railway.
metropolitannoun/mɛtɹəˈpɒlɪtən/
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ChristianityA 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.
- She was in love with all the new royal princes and princesses, who entered into family relationship with the imperial family; she had been in love with a metropolitan, with a vicar, and with a priest.
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The inhabitant of a metropolis.
metropolitanadj/mɛtɹəˈpɒlɪtən/
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ChristianityPertaining to the see or province of a metropolitan.
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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.
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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.
- the new political status of these islands marks a definite break with the traditional Dutch colonial practice to keep its Caribbean colonies at a distance; and, after 2010, Dutch metropolitan laws and dministrative practices started being implemented on the islands.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。