metropolitan

大都市の

大きな都市とその周辺地域に関する。

やさしい英語で： Relating to a large city and the surrounding area.

• They live in a metropolitan area.
• The metropolitan region has excellent public transport.
• Housing costs are rising across the metropolitan districts.

類義語： urban

反対語： rural

よく使う表現： metropolitan area, metropolitan region, metropolitan population

本国の

植民地や海外領土を除いた、国の主要な領土に関する。

やさしい英語で： Relating to a country’s main territory rather than its colonies or overseas areas.

• The law applies in metropolitan France.
• Goods were sent from the colony to metropolitan ports.
• The metropolitan government controlled trade with its overseas territories.

よく使う表現： metropolitan France, metropolitan territory, metropolitan government

府主教の

高位の主教の教会や、その主教が管轄する地域に関する。

やさしい英語で： Relating to a senior bishop’s church or the area under that bishop’s authority.

• The service took place in the metropolitan cathedral.
• The bishops discussed matters affecting the metropolitan province.
• He held authority over the metropolitan see.

よく使う表現： metropolitan see, metropolitan cathedral, metropolitan province

府主教

ある地域のほかの主教を統括する、位の高いキリスト教の聖職者。

やさしい英語で： A senior Christian religious leader responsible for other bishops in an area.

• The metropolitan visited the church.
• A new metropolitan was appointed last year.
• The bishops met with their metropolitan.

使い方： metropolitan of somewhere (He became metropolitan of the province.)

類義語： archbishop

よく使う表現： metropolitan of something, orthodox metropolitan, new metropolitan

大都市の住民

非常に大きな都市に住む人。

やさしい英語で： A person who lives in a very large city.

• She was a metropolitan by birth.
• These metropolitans rarely visited the countryside.
• The exhibition attracted fashionable metropolitans from the capital.

類義語： city dweller

よく使う表現： wealthy metropolitan, young metropolitan, fashionable metropolitan