Metropolitan vs Indigenous - What's the difference?
metropolitan | indigenous |
(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.
(chiefly, of living things) Born or engendered in, native to a land or region, especially before an intrusion.
* 1862 , , "Wild Apples: The History of the Apple Tree":
Innate, inborn.
* 1852 , , Uncle Tom's Cabin , ch. 18:
* 1883 , , "Stephen Archer" in Stephen Archer and Other Tales :
As adjectives the difference between metropolitan and indigenous
is that metropolitan is (christianity) pertaining to the see or province of a metropolitan while indigenous is (chiefly|of living things) born or engendered in, native to a land or region, especially before an intrusion.As a noun metropolitan
is (christianity) a bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop.metropolitan
English
(wikipedia metropolitan)Alternative forms
* metropolitan bishopNoun
(en noun)Adjective
(en adjective)indigenous
English
Adjective
(-)- Not only the Indian, but many indigenous insects, birds, and quadrupeds, welcomed the apple-tree to these shores.
- She was a native and essential cook, as much as Aunt Chloe,—cooking being an indigenous talent of the African race.
- He had all the tricks of a newspaper boy indigenous in him.
