metropolitans

Meaning of metropolitans

plural noun
  1. a bishop having authority over the bishops of a province, in particular (in Orthodox Churches) one ranking above archbishop and below patriarch.
    the post of Metropolitan of Moldavia and Bucovina
    Metropolitan Aleksei of Leningrad and Novgorod
  2. an inhabitant of a metropolis or large city.
    a sophisticated metropolitan

late Middle English (in the ecclesiastical sense): from late Latin metropolitanus, from Greek mētropolitēs ‘citizen of a mother state’, from mētropolis (see metropolis).

Information about metropolitans

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of metropolitans is: metropolitan.
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Hyphenation of metropolitans

met-ro-pol-i-tans

  • It consists of 5 syllables and 13 chars.
  • metropolitans is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables

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