metropolitan (adj.)

  1. relating to or characteristic of a metropolis; metropolitan area'

    metropolitan (n.)

  1. in the Eastern Orthodox Church this title is given to a position between bishop and patriarch; equivalent to archbishop in western Christianity

  2. a person who lives in a metropolis

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