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Metro.

Metro. is the abbreviation of metropolitan.

Meaning of metropolitan

Noun

metropolitan (plural metropolitans)

  1. A bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop.
    • I knovv God by Miracle can inſtruct Kings, as he rained Mannah, and raiſed the Apoſtles from letterless Fiſher-men, to learned Metropolitans, and profound Doctours.1663, Edward Waterhous[e], chapter I, in Fortescutus Illustratus; or A Commentary on that Nervous Treatise De Laudibus Legum Angliæ, Written by Sir John Fortescue Knight, […], London: […] Tho[mas]...
  2. The inhabitant of a metropolis.

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Questions about Metro.

What is Metro. the abbreviation of?
Metro. is the abbreviation of metropolitan.

Words near Metro. in the dictionary

  1. metro station
  2. metro stations
  3. Metro Toronto
  4. Metro Vancouver
  5. metro-
  6. Metro.
  7. Metrobank
  8. metrobus
  9. metrobuses
  10. MetroCard
  11. MetroCards

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