Meanings
plural metropolitanates
- The role, status or tenure of a metropolitan bishop.
Synonyms: metropolitanship
- The see of a metropolitan bishop.
that ascending ladder of ecclesiastical honours, the priorate, the abbacy, the bishopric, the metropolitanate, the cardinalate, and even that which was beyond and above all.
1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin ChristianitySynonyms: metropolitanship
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe role, status or tenure of a metropolitan bishop.
nounThe see of a metropolitan bishop.
Origin
From metropolitan + -ate (suffix forming nouns denoting rank or office).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
French métropolitanat, métropolitanat
- métropolitanatrole, status or tenure
- métropolitanatsee
Italian metropolitanato
- metropolitanatosee
Spanish metropolitanato
- metropolitanatosee
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