different between municipality vs metropolitan

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French municipalité (Edmund Burke); synchronically analyzable as municipal +? -ity.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mj??n?s??pæl?ti/

Noun

municipality (plural municipalities)

1. A district with a government that typically encloses no other governed districts; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village.
2. The governing body of such a district.

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Translations

Scots

Etymology

Borrowed from English municipality.

Noun

municipality (plural municipalities)

1. municipality

English

Etymology

From Late Latin metropolitanus, from Ancient Greek ???????????? (m?tropolít?s).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m?t???p?l?t?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /m?t???p?l?t?n/

Noun

metropolitan (plural metropolitans)

1. (Christianity) A bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop. [from 15th c.]
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 514:

     Yet from the late thirteenth century the metropolitan based himself either in Moscow or Vladimir-on-the-Kliazma, which was also in Muscovite territory, and it became the ambition of the Muscovites to make this arrangement permanent.

2. The inhabitant of a metropolis. [from 18th c.]

Translations

Adjective

metropolitan (comparative more metropolitan, superlative most metropolitan)

1. (Christianity) Pertaining to the see or province of a metropolitan. [from 15th c.]
2. Of, or pertaining to, a metropolis or other large urban settlement. [from 16th c.]

Antonyms

• non-metropolitan

Translations

Ladin

Adjective

metropolitan m (feminine singular metropolitana, masculine plural metropolitans, feminine plural metropolitanes)

1. metropolitan

Romanian

Etymology

From French métropolitain.

Noun

metropolitan n (plural metropolitane)

1. (dated) metro, subway, underground

Declension