metropolitan

• adj.メトロポリタン；大司教区；総主教座
• n.メトロポリタン；大司教；総主教庁の市民

メトロポリス、メトロポリスから。

metropolitan (n.)

early 15c., "bishop having oversight of other bishops," from Late Latin metropolitanus, from Greek metropolis "mother city" (from which others have been colonized), also "capital city," from meter "mother" (see mother (n.1)) + polis "city" (see polis).

In Greek, "parent state of a colony;" later, "see of a metropolitan bishop." In the West, the position now roughly corresponds to archbishop, but in the Greek church it ranks above it.

metropolitan (adj.)

1540s, "belonging to an ecclesiastical metropolis," from Late Latin metropolitanus, from Greek metropolites "resident of a city," from metropolis (see metropolitan (n.)). Meaning "belonging to a chief or capital city" is from 1550s. In reference to underground city railways, it is attested from 1867.

1. He is currently being held in a metropolitan correctional center.

彼は現在、大都市の改造センターに閉じ込められている。

2.This yet another slur on the integrity of the Metropolitan Police.

ロンドン市警察署の清廉潔白さに対するさらなる誹謗である。

3.The Metropolitan Police say clear-up figures were improved.

ロンドン警察によると、事件解決率は過去に向上したという。

4.the New York metropolitan area

ニューヨーク市街部

5.Canadian French is different from the language of metropolitan France.

カナダのフランス語はフランス本土のフランス語とは異なります。