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metropolitanate

metropolitanate noun: the see of a metropolitan bishop.

Noun

metropolitanate (plural metropolitanates)

  1. The see of a metropolitan bishop.
    • that ascending ladder of ecclesiastical honours , the priorate , the abbacy , the bishopric , the metropolitanate , the cardinalate , and even that which was beyond and above all .1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity

Forms of metropolitanate

pluralmetropolitanates

Origin of metropolitanate

From metropolitan + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office).

Questions about metropolitanate

What does metropolitanate mean?
Metropolitanate means the see of a metropolitan bishop.
What part of speech is metropolitanate?
Metropolitanate is a noun.
What is the plural of metropolitanate?
The plural of metropolitanate is metropolitanates.

Words near metropolitanate in the dictionary

  1. metropolitan counties
  2. metropolitan county
  3. metropolitan elite
  4. metropolitan elites
  5. Metropolitan France
  6. metropolitanate
  7. metropolitanates
  8. metropolitancies
  9. metropolitancy
  10. metropolitanisation
  11. metropolitanise

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