Metropolitan(a.) Of or pertaining to the capital or principal city of a country; as, metropolitan luxury.
Metropolitan(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a metropolitan or the presiding bishop of a country or province, his office, or his dignity; as, metropolitan authority.
Metropolitan(n.) The superior or presiding bishop of a country or province.
Metropolitan(n.) An archbishop.
Metropolitan(n.) A bishop whose see is civil metropolis. His rank is intermediate between that of an archbishop and a patriarch.
Metropolitanate(n.) The see of a metropolitan bishop.
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