of, noting, or characteristic of a metropolis or its inhabitants, esp. in culture, sophistication, or in accepting and combining a wide variety of people, ideas, etc.

of or pertaining to a large city, its surrounding suburbs, and other neighboring communities

the New York metropolitan area.

pertaining to or constituting a mother country.

pertaining to an ecclesiastical metropolis.

an inhabitant of a metropolis.

a person who has the sophistication, fashionable taste, or other habits and manners associated with those who live in a metropolis.

Eastern Church . the head of an ecclesiastical province.

an archbishop in the Church of England.

Roman Catholic Church . an archbishop who has authority over one or more suffragan sees.

(in ancient Greece) a citizen of the mother city or parent state of a colony.

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country

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city , cosmopolitan , modern , municipal , urban , urbane , bishop