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metropolitans

metropolitans is the plural 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 metropolitans

What is metropolitans the plural of?
Metropolitans is the plural of metropolitan.

Words near metropolitans in the dictionary

  1. metropolitanize
  2. metropolitanized
  3. metropolitanizes
  4. metropolitanizing
  5. metropolitanly
  6. metropolitans
  7. metropolitanship
  8. metropolitanships
  9. metropolite
  10. metropolites
  11. metropolitic

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