| 释义 | 
		metropolitan美 [.metrə'pɑlɪt(ə)n]  英 [.metrə'pɒlɪt(ə)n]  - adj.大城市的;大都会的;本土的
 - n.大城市人;有大城市气派的人;大主教
 - 网络大都市的;伦敦都市大学;首都的
 
 adj.+n. metropolitan region,metropolitan district n. urbanite,cosmopolitan,citizen,resident,townie adj. city,urban,municipal,civic 1.  | 大城市的;大都会的connected with a large or capital city  |  
  | the New York metropolitan area 纽约都市区  |   | metropolitan districts/regions 都市区  |  
 2.  | 本土的connected with a particular country rather than with the other regions of the world that the country controls  |  
  | metropolitan France/Spain 法国╱西班牙本土  |  
 adj.  | 1. constituting a large urban area, usually one that includes a city and its suburbs and outlying areas 2. characteristic of a metropolis in scale, variety, or sophistication 3. relating to the home territory of a country rather than to its territories elsewhere 4. relating to or constituting an ecclesiastical metropolis 5. belonging to a big city, or typical of big cities 1. constituting a large urban area, usually one that includes a city and its suburbs and outlying areas 2. characteristic of a metropolis in scale, variety, or sophistication 3. relating to the home territory of a country rather than to its territories elsewhere 4. relating to or constituting an ecclesiastical metropolis 5. belonging to a big city, or typical of big cities  |  n.  | 1. an inhabitant of a metropolis 2. in some Christian denominations, a high-ranking church dignitary, e.g. an archbishop or head of an ecclesiastical province 3. the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, based in Moscow  |  
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