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metropolitan area

metropolitan area noun: an area of population usually with a central or core city and surrounding towns or suburbs.

Noun

metropolitan area (plural metropolitan areas)

  1. An area of population usually with a central or core city and surrounding towns or suburbs.
    • Before the year was out there were, in addition to Redwood's pioneer vehicle, quite a number of motor-perambulators to be seen in the west of London. I am told there were as many as eleven; but the most careful inquiries yield trustworthy evidence of only six within the Metropolitan area at that...1904, H. G. Wells, The Food of the Gods, Book I ch 4
    • 1911 — Encyclopædia Britannica, "Brisbane"
      The population of the metropolitan area in 1901 was 119,907; of the city proper, 28,953; of South Brisbane, 25,481.

metropolitan area meaning in Tamil, Indonesian and Persian

metropolitan area in Tamil

பெருநகர்ப் பகுதி

metropolitan area in Indonesian

area of population
wllayah kota raya, kawasan metropolitan

metropolitan area in Persian

area of population
منطقه کلانشهری mantaqe-ye kalân-šahri

Examples of metropolitan area in a sentence

  • I am told there were as many as eleven; but the most careful inquiries yield trustworthy evidence of only six within the Metropolitan area at that time.1904, H. G. Wells, The Food of the Gods, Book I ch 4:
  • The metropolitan area of Lima accounts for 43 per cent of gross domestic product, for four-fifths of bank credit and consumer goods production.1987 — UN World Commission on Environment and Development, Brundtland Report, sxn A/42/427

Forms of metropolitan area

pluralmetropolitan areas

Questions about metropolitan area

What does metropolitan area mean?
Metropolitan area means an area of population usually with a central or core city and surrounding towns or suburbs.
What is metropolitan area in Tamil?
Metropolitan area in Tamil is பெருநகர்ப் பகுதி. See Metropolitan area meaning in Tamil.
How do you use metropolitan area in a sentence?
I am told there were as many as eleven; but the most careful inquiries yield trustworthy evidence of only six within the Metropolitan area at that time.
What part of speech is metropolitan area?
Metropolitan area is a noun.
What is the plural of metropolitan area?
The plural of metropolitan area is metropolitan areas.

Words near metropolitan area in the dictionary

  1. metropolised
  2. metropolises
  3. metropolising
  4. metropolisses
  5. metropolitan
  6. metropolitan area
  7. metropolitan area network
  8. metropolitan area networks
  9. metropolitan areas
  10. metropolitan bishop
  11. metropolitan bishops

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Adapted from Wiktionary: metropolitan area (page history and authors); metropolitan area (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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