What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Metropolitan vs Megacities - What's the difference?

metropolitan | megacities |

As nouns the difference between metropolitan and megacities

is that metropolitan is a bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop while megacities is plural of megacity.

As an adjective metropolitan

is 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.

    • megacities

    English

    Noun

    (head)