Rural vs Metropolitan - What's the difference?
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Pertaining to less-populated, non-urban areas.
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=4 (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.
As adjectives the difference between rural and metropolitan
is that rural is pertaining to less-populated, non-urban areas while metropolitan is (christianity) pertaining to the see or province of a metropolitan.As a noun metropolitan is
(christianity) a bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop.rural
English
(wikipedia rural)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins … .}}