As nouns the difference between conurbation and metropolitan
is that conurbation is a continuous aggregation of built-up urban communities created as a result of urban sprawl while metropolitan is (christianity) a bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop.
As an adjective metropolitan is
(christianity) pertaining to the see or province of a metropolitan.
conurbation
English
Usage notes
A Dictionary of Geography'' distinguishes between ''uninuclear conurbations'' (conurbations which have developed around one urban area) and ''polynuclear conurbations (conurbations which have developed from the aggregation of several urban areas).
Related terms
* suburban
* urban
* urbane
* urbanite
References
* 2005, Ed. Catherine Soanes and Angus Stevenson, The Oxford Dictionary of English (2nd edition revised) , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0198610572
* 2005, John Scott and Gordon Marshall, A Dictionary of Sociology , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0198609876
* 2004, Susan Mayhew, A Dictionary of Geography , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0198606737
metropolitan
Alternative forms
* metropolitan bishop
Noun
(
en noun)
(Christianity) A bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop.
*2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 514:
*:Yet from the late thirteenth century the metropolitan based himself either in Moscow or Vladimir-on-the-Kliazma, which was also in Muscovite territory, and it became the ambition of the Muscovites to make this arrangement permanent.
The inhabitant of a metropolis.
Adjective
(
en adjective)
(Christianity) Pertaining to the see or province of a metropolitan.
Of, or pertaining to, a metropolis or other large urban settlement.
