Metropolitan
WordNet
adjective
(1) Relating to or characteristic of a metropolis
"Metropolitan area"
noun
(2) A person who lives in a metropolis
(3) In the Eastern Orthodox Church this title is given to a position between bishop and patriarch; equivalent to archbishop in western Christianity
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Etymology
From metropolitanus, from μητρόπολις (metropolis).
Adjective
- of, or pertaining to, a metropolis or other large urban settlement.
Noun
- In Eastern Orthodoxy, a bishop empowered to oversee other bishops, an archbishop. Their demesne is an Archeparchy.
- the inhabitant of a metropolis