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   Met·ro·pol·i·tan

   /ˌmetrəˈpälətn/

   

   adjective

   • 1. relating to or denoting a metropolis, often inclusive of its surrounding areas: "the Boston metropolitan area"
   • 2. relating to or denoting the parent state of a colony or dependency: "metropolitan Spain"
   • 3. relating to or denoting a metropolitan or his see: "a metropolitan bishop"

   noun

   • 1. a bishop having authority over the bishops of a province, in particular (in Orthodox Churches) one ranking above archbishop and below patriarch: "the post of Metropolitan of Moldavia and Bucovina"
   • 2. an inhabitant of a metropolis or large city: "a sophisticated metropolitan"

   Word Origin late Middle English (in the ecclesiastical sense): from late Latin metropolitanus, from Greek mētropolitēs ‘citizen of a mother state’, from mētropolis (see metropolis).

   Derivatives

   • 1. metropolitanism noun

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