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Metropolitan vs County - What's the difference?

metropolitan | county |

As nouns the difference between metropolitan and county

is that metropolitan is (christianity) a bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop while county is county.

As an adjective metropolitan

is (christianity) pertaining to the see or province of a metropolitan.

metropolitan

English

(wikipedia 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.

    • county

    English

    Noun

    (counties)
  • (historical) The land ruled by a count or a countess.
  • An administrative region of various countries, including Bhutan, Canada, China, Croatia, France, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Serbia and Montenegro and Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States.
  • A definitive geographic region, without direct administrative functions.
    • traditional county

    Usage notes

    * In American usage, counties are almost always designated as such, with the word "County" capitalized and following the name — e.g., "Lewis County", rarely "Lewis", and never "County Lewis." * In British usage, counties are referenced without designation — e.g. "Kent" and never "Kent County". The exception is Durham, which is often "County Durham" (but never "Durham County"). An organisation such as Kent County Council is the "County Council" of "Kent" and not the "Council" of "Kent County". * In Irish usage, counties are frequently referenced, but like Durham precede the name — e.g., "County Cork" or "Cork" and never "Cork County."

    Derived terms

    * countyhood * countywide * another county heard from * traditional county

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Characteristic of a ‘county family’; representative of the gentry or aristocracy of a county.
  • *1979 , , Smiley's People , Folio Society 2010, p. 274:
  • *:She was a tall girl and county , with Hilary's walk: she seemed to topple even when she sat.