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metropolitan areas

metropolitan areas is the plural of metropolitan area.

Meaning of metropolitan area

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

Questions about metropolitan areas

What is metropolitan areas the plural of?
Metropolitan areas is the plural of metropolitan area.

Words near metropolitan areas in the dictionary

  1. metropolisses
  2. metropolitan
  3. metropolitan area
  4. metropolitan area network
  5. metropolitan area networks
  6. metropolitan areas
  7. metropolitan bishop
  8. metropolitan bishops
  9. metropolitan borough
  10. metropolitan boroughs
  11. metropolitan cities

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