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metropolitanise

metropolitanise is the alternative form of metropolitanize.

Meaning of metropolitanize

Verb

metropolitanize (third-person singular simple present metropolitanizes, present participle metropolitanizing, simple past and past participle metropolitanized)

  1. (transitive) To make metropolitan; to adapt to the norms of a metropolis.

Forms of metropolitanise

third-person singular presentmetropolitanises
present participlemetropolitanising
past participlemetropolitanised
pastmetropolitanised

Origin of metropolitanise

From metropolitan + -ise.

Questions about metropolitanise

What is metropolitanise the alternative form of?
Metropolitanise is the alternative form of metropolitanize.

Words near metropolitanise in the dictionary

  1. metropolitanate
  2. metropolitanates
  3. metropolitancies
  4. metropolitancy
  5. metropolitanisation
  6. metropolitanise
  7. metropolitanised
  8. metropolitanises
  9. metropolitanising
  10. metropolitanism
  11. metropolitanisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: metropolitanise (page history and authors); metropolitanize (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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