- (also North American English, informal metro)
connected with a large or capital city 大城市的；大都会的 the New York metropolitan area 纽约都市区 metropolitan districts/regions 都市区
connected with a particular country rather than with the other regions of the world that the country controls 本土的 metropolitan France/Spain 法国／西班牙本土
Word Originlate Middle English (in the ecclesiastical sense): from late Latin metropolitanus, from Greek mētropolitēs ‘citizen of a mother state’, from mētropolis ‘mother state’, from mētēr, mētr- ‘mother’ + polis ‘city’.