Metropolitan
adjective
Relating to a large city, its surrounding areas, and its culture.
She moved from her small town to pursue a metropolitan lifestyle in New York City.
Often appears as...
- metropolitan area
- metropolitan lifestyle
noun
The head bishop of a province in certain Christian churches.
The metropolitan of the province presided over the ceremony.
Often appears as...
- metropolitan bishop
- metropolitan see
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Formal
noun
A citizen living in a large city.
As a metropolitan, he enjoyed the hustle and bustle of city life.
Often appears as...
- urban metropolitan
- young metropolitan
adjective
Relating to a large city, its surrounding areas, and its culture.
She moved from her small town to pursue a metropolitan lifestyle in New York City.
Often appears as...
- metropolitan area
- metropolitan lifestyle
noun
The head bishop of a province in certain Christian churches.
The metropolitan of the province presided over the ceremony.
Often appears as...
- metropolitan bishop
- metropolitan see
Usage tips
Formal
noun
A citizen living in a large city.
As a metropolitan, he enjoyed the hustle and bustle of city life.
Often appears as...
- urban metropolitan
- young metropolitan
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3City Influence
Refers to characteristics influenced by city living, including diversity and fast-paced life.
The festival had a metropolitan vibe with its eclectic food stalls and live music.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Downtown
Includes both the central city and its surrounding suburbs, not just the city center.
The metropolitan area is expecting a population growth, including the suburbs.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Hub
Implies a center for culture, arts, finance, and commerce within a region.
Metropolitan museums and theaters attract visitors from around the world.
Pro Tip 1/3City Influence
Refers to characteristics influenced by city living, including diversity and fast-paced life.
The festival had a metropolitan vibe with its eclectic food stalls and live music.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Downtown
Includes both the central city and its surrounding suburbs, not just the city center.
The metropolitan area is expecting a population growth, including the suburbs.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Hub
Implies a center for culture, arts, finance, and commerce within a region.
Metropolitan museums and theaters attract visitors from around the world.
Pro Tip 1/3City Influence
Refers to characteristics influenced by city living, including diversity and fast-paced life.
The festival had a metropolitan vibe with its eclectic food stalls and live music.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Downtown
Includes both the central city and its surrounding suburbs, not just the city center.
The metropolitan area is expecting a population growth, including the suburbs.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Hub
Implies a center for culture, arts, finance, and commerce within a region.
Metropolitan museums and theaters attract visitors from around the world.
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Kenya’s Wildlife...
paula hosts a show called wildlife warriors it's made by a kenyan tv crew and broadcast to millions of homes in more than 20 countries in africa and the caribbean the interesting thing about paula is that she never set out to be a tv star she grew up in kenya's capital nairobi a huge metropolitan city with 5 million
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It’s time to embrace our...
relative to the rest of the metropolitan area and of course the federal government didn't exactly help they followed a Potemkin village strategy that confused structures and infrastructure for the real heart of the city which is always the people living in the city it gave cities urban renewal building
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Bjarke Ingels: 3...
underneath the apartments. And up in the sun, you have a single layer of apartments that combine all the splendors of a suburban lifestyle, like a house with a garden with a sort of metropolitan view, and a sort of dense urban location. This is our first architectural model.
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The Water Crisis PIPE...
ever even uses i want to see just exactly how i should adjust my life even in the smallest ways so i can stop being a part of the water scarcity problem start being part of the solution here to help me is christa guerrero from the metropolitan water district of
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Timothy Bartik: The...
In fact, this effect is so strong that when someone gets a college degree, the spillover effects of this on the wages of others in the metropolitan area are actually greater than the direct effects. So if someone gets a college degree, their lifetime earnings
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Carolyn Steel: How food...
Same series of semi-independent city-states, little blobs of metropolitan stuff with arable land around, joined to one another by railway. And again, food could be said to be the ordering principle of his vision. It even got built, but nothing to do with
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Heather Brooke: My...
Metropolitan Police Commissioner talking about why the police need access to all of our communications, spying on us without any judicial oversight, and he said it was a matter of life and death. He actually said that, it was a matter of life and death.
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The economic case for...
that when someone gets a college degree the spillover effects of this on the wages of others in the metropolitan area are actually greater than the direct effects so if someone gets a college degree their lifetime earnings go up by
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The danger of hiding who...
For those of you from large metropolitan areas, this may not seem like a big deal to you. It may seem strange that I have suppressed the truth and hidden this for so long. But I was paralyzed by my fear of not being accepted.
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Sugata Mitra: Can kids...
What happens to education? The second, or a different kind of remoteness is that within the large metropolitan areas all over the world, you have pockets, like slums, or shantytowns, or poorer areas,
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Kenya’s Wildlife...
paula hosts a show called wildlife warriors it's made by a kenyan tv crew and broadcast to millions of homes in more than 20 countries in africa and the caribbean the interesting thing about paula is that she never set out to be a tv star she grew up in kenya's capital nairobi a huge metropolitan city with 5 million
Video examples
It’s time to embrace our...
relative to the rest of the metropolitan area and of course the federal government didn't exactly help they followed a Potemkin village strategy that confused structures and infrastructure for the real heart of the city which is always the people living in the city it gave cities urban renewal building
Video examples
Bjarke Ingels: 3...
underneath the apartments. And up in the sun, you have a single layer of apartments that combine all the splendors of a suburban lifestyle, like a house with a garden with a sort of metropolitan view, and a sort of dense urban location. This is our first architectural model.
Video examples
The Water Crisis PIPE...
ever even uses i want to see just exactly how i should adjust my life even in the smallest ways so i can stop being a part of the water scarcity problem start being part of the solution here to help me is christa guerrero from the metropolitan water district of
Video examples
Timothy Bartik: The...
In fact, this effect is so strong that when someone gets a college degree, the spillover effects of this on the wages of others in the metropolitan area are actually greater than the direct effects. So if someone gets a college degree, their lifetime earnings
Video examples
Carolyn Steel: How food...
Same series of semi-independent city-states, little blobs of metropolitan stuff with arable land around, joined to one another by railway. And again, food could be said to be the ordering principle of his vision. It even got built, but nothing to do with
Video examples
Heather Brooke: My...
Metropolitan Police Commissioner talking about why the police need access to all of our communications, spying on us without any judicial oversight, and he said it was a matter of life and death. He actually said that, it was a matter of life and death.
Video examples
The economic case for...
that when someone gets a college degree the spillover effects of this on the wages of others in the metropolitan area are actually greater than the direct effects so if someone gets a college degree their lifetime earnings go up by
Video examples
The danger of hiding who...
For those of you from large metropolitan areas, this may not seem like a big deal to you. It may seem strange that I have suppressed the truth and hidden this for so long. But I was paralyzed by my fear of not being accepted.
Video examples
Sugata Mitra: Can kids...
What happens to education? The second, or a different kind of remoteness is that within the large metropolitan areas all over the world, you have pockets, like slums, or shantytowns, or poorer areas,
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Quote examples
Jalen Rose
American Athlete
It's my job, it's my role, it's my mission, it's my dream to have everyone who has Michigan ties - whether you went to college in Michigan, whether you grew up in Michigan, if you've ever heard of the state of Michigan - to do what you can to influence the students of the Detroit metropolitan area.
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Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
Canadian Actor
From the most remote of villages to the largest metropolitan cities, we, as a species, have the same internal need to be seen, heard, and validated. It is the most human of traits that I have witnessed and experienced the world over.
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Richard M. Daley
American Politician
I believe the way I describe the problems in Chicago is that it's a metropolitan area. I've said that everywhere. The uneducated child is not just my problem, it's the state's problem. It's also the federal government's problem.
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Dave Reichert
American Politician
Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive definition and identity to those seeking a place to belong in the chaos of large metropolitan areas.
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Georg Simmel
German Sociologist
Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule.
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Lucy McBath
American Politician
As the metropolitan Atlanta area continues to grow, it's critical that we support small businesses and the prosperity of our local community.
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Kate Brown
American Politician
I certainly think it's really important that folks in the metropolitan area be able to meet the increased cost of living.
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Simon Schama
British Historian
I felt New York was a big, more stylish, more metropolitan Golders Green. I was thrilled.
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George Osborne
British Politician
I didn't come from a traditional Tory background; it was urban and metropolitan.
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Tadashi Yanai
Japanese Businessman
The world's major metropolitan cities are more or less the same.
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Jalen Rose
American Athlete
It's my job, it's my role, it's my mission, it's my dream to have everyone who has Michigan ties - whether you went to college in Michigan, whether you grew up in Michigan, if you've ever heard of the state of Michigan - to do what you can to influence the students of the Detroit metropolitan area.
Quote examples
Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
Canadian Actor
From the most remote of villages to the largest metropolitan cities, we, as a species, have the same internal need to be seen, heard, and validated. It is the most human of traits that I have witnessed and experienced the world over.
Quote examples
Richard M. Daley
American Politician
I believe the way I describe the problems in Chicago is that it's a metropolitan area. I've said that everywhere. The uneducated child is not just my problem, it's the state's problem. It's also the federal government's problem.
Quote examples
Dave Reichert
American Politician
Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive definition and identity to those seeking a place to belong in the chaos of large metropolitan areas.
Quote examples
Georg Simmel
German Sociologist
Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule.
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Lucy McBath
American Politician
As the metropolitan Atlanta area continues to grow, it's critical that we support small businesses and the prosperity of our local community.
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Kate Brown
American Politician
I certainly think it's really important that folks in the metropolitan area be able to meet the increased cost of living.
Quote examples
Simon Schama
British Historian
I felt New York was a big, more stylish, more metropolitan Golders Green. I was thrilled.
Quote examples
George Osborne
British Politician
I didn't come from a traditional Tory background; it was urban and metropolitan.
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Tadashi Yanai
Japanese Businessman
The world's major metropolitan cities are more or less the same.
Example 1 of 10
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