Metropolitan



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解释

GRE 红宝书

• adj. 大都会的, 首都的
• ［英］ adj. 大都会的, 首都的 ( of a metropolis)
• ［记］ metro（母亲）+polit（城市）+an -> 母亲城的 -> 大城市的

Webster Collegiate

I. noun

• Date: 14th century
• 1. the primate of an ecclesiastical province
• 2. one who lives in a metropolis or displays metropolitan manners or customs

II. adjective

• Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin metropolitanus of the see of a metropolitan, from metropolita, noun, metropolitan, from Late Greek mētropolitēs, from mētropolis see of a metropolitan, from Greek, capital
• Date: 15th century
• 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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