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Overcrowded vs Metropolitan - What's the difference?

overcrowded | metropolitan |

As adjectives the difference between overcrowded and metropolitan

is that overcrowded is containing too many occupants for an area of its size while metropolitan is (christianity) pertaining to the see or province of a metropolitan.

As a verb overcrowded

is (overcrowd).

As a noun metropolitan is

(christianity) a bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop.

overcrowded

English

Verb

(head)
  • (overcrowd)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Containing too many occupants for an area of its size.

    • 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.