Metropolitan vs District - What's the difference?
metropolitan | district |
(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.
(Christianity) Pertaining to the see or province of a metropolitan.
Of, or pertaining to, a metropolis or other large urban settlement.
An administrative division of an area.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=Foreword An area or region marked by some distinguishing feature.
(UK) An administrative division of a county without the status of a borough.
(obsolete) rigorous; stringent; harsh
* Foxe
As a noun 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.As a proper noun district is
(with determiner|informal) the district of columbia, the federal district of the united states.metropolitan
English
(wikipedia metropolitan)Alternative forms
* metropolitan bishopNoun
(en noun)Adjective
(en adjective)district
English
(wikipedia district)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=‘I understand that the district was considered a sort of sanctuary,’ the Chief was saying. ‘An Alsatia like the ancient one behind the Strand, or the Saffron Hill before the First World War. […]’}}
- the Soho district of London
- the Lake District in Cumbria
- South Oxfordshire District Council
Derived terms
* congressional district * districthood * electoral district * school districtDerived terms
* redistrictAdjective
(en adjective)- punishing with the rod of district severity