metropolitan

métropolitain

Qui concerne une grande ville et les environs.

En anglais simple : Relating to a large city and the surrounding area.

• They live in a metropolitan area.
• The metropolitan region has excellent public transport.
• Housing costs are rising across the metropolitan districts.

Synonymes : urban

Contraires : rural

Expressions courantes : metropolitan area, metropolitan region, metropolitan population

métropolitain

Qui concerne le territoire principal d’un pays, sans ses colonies ni ses territoires d’outre-mer.

En anglais simple : Relating to a country’s main territory rather than its colonies or overseas areas.

• The law applies in metropolitan France.
• Goods were sent from the colony to metropolitan ports.
• The metropolitan government controlled trade with its overseas territories.

Expressions courantes : metropolitan France, metropolitan territory, metropolitan government

métropolitain

Qui concerne l’église d’un évêque supérieur ou le territoire placé sous son autorité.

En anglais simple : Relating to a senior bishop’s church or the area under that bishop’s authority.

• The service took place in the metropolitan cathedral.
• The bishops discussed matters affecting the metropolitan province.
• He held authority over the metropolitan see.

Expressions courantes : metropolitan see, metropolitan cathedral, metropolitan province

métropolite

Évêque de haut rang responsable des autres évêques d’une région.

En anglais simple : A senior Christian religious leader responsible for other bishops in an area.

• The metropolitan visited the church.
• A new metropolitan was appointed last year.
• The bishops met with their metropolitan.

Comment l'utiliser : metropolitan of somewhere (He became metropolitan of the province.)

Synonymes : archbishop

Expressions courantes : metropolitan of something, orthodox metropolitan, new metropolitan

citadin

Personne qui habite une très grande ville.

En anglais simple : A person who lives in a very large city.

• She was a metropolitan by birth.
• These metropolitans rarely visited the countryside.
• The exhibition attracted fashionable metropolitans from the capital.

Synonymes : city dweller

Expressions courantes : wealthy metropolitan, young metropolitan, fashionable metropolitan