What does metropolitan mean?
Word: Metropolitan
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Metropolitan means connected with a very large city, or with a big city together with its suburbs.
Synonyms: urban, city
Antonyms: provincial
How do you spell metropolitan?
Syllables: met - ro - pol - i - tan
Tricky part: The ending is -itan: students often write -iton or -itian.
Watch out for: metropoliton, metropolitian
Memory tip: A metropolitan city is a giant, like the Titans of Greek stories, and it ends the way Titan does: -itan.
Metropolitan in a sentence
Example 1: Chennai is one of India's biggest metropolitan cities.
Example 2: The metropolitan region around Delhi includes Gurugram and Noida.
Example 3: Our aunt moved from a small town to a metropolitan area for her new job.
Fun Fact
Metropolis comes from the Greek meter, mother, and polis, city: a metropolis was first a mother city that sent out settlers to start new towns.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Champ
In which option are the given words arranged in alphabetical order?
1. metropolitan 2. metronome 3. metropolis
a) 132
b) 321
c) 213
d) 231
Show answer
d) 231. Metron- comes before metrop-, and metropolis (s) comes before metropolitan (t).
Word Puzzle
Match the words in the two lists:
1. metropolitan 2. permanent 3. noisy a. quiet b. rural c. temporary
a) 1-b, 2-a, 3-c
b) 1-c, 2-a, 3-b
c) 1-b, 2-c, 3-a
d) 1-c, 2-b, 3-a
Show answer
c) 1-b, 2-c, 3-a. These are opposite pairs: metropolitan against rural, permanent against temporary, noisy against quiet.
Word Tally
How many words are misspelt in the given sentence?
Pune has grown into a busy metropolitan area, with new flyovers and shoping malls appearing every year.
a) 3
b) 2
c) 1
d) 0
Show answer
c) 1. Shopping doubles the p before -ing, so shoping is the one mistake.
Spellacadabra
Which word takes the same letter in both blanks?
a) p__l__ce
b) c__mp__ss
c) tr__mp__line
d) metr__p__litan
Show answer
d) metr__p__litan. Metropolitan takes o in both blanks; police needs o and i, compass o and a, trampoline a and o.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Someone who lives in a metropolitan area most likely ____.
a) fetches water from a forest stream
b) drives to work through heavy traffic
c) walks to the only shop in the village
d) farms a small plot on a quiet hillside
Show answer
b) drives to work through heavy traffic
2. Which place below is a metropolitan city?
a) Kolkata
b) a tea estate
c) a hamlet of ten houses
d) a desert camp
Show answer
a) Kolkata
