- metropolitan⇄adj. 1. of a large city; belonging to large cities.
Ex. metropolitan newspapers.
2. constituting a metropolis.
Ex. a metropolitan center.
3. of or having to do with a metropolitan of the church, or his see or province.
4. - metropolitan⇄metropolitan, adjective, noun.
- metropolitan⇄noun 1. a person who lives in a large city and knows its ways.
2. the chief bishop of an ecclesiastical province, having authority over the bishops (suffragans) within the territory:
a. (in the Roman Catholic Church) a bishop presiding over