Definition of: metropolitan

(met′rə·pol′ə·tən) noun
1. An archbishop who exercises a limited authority over the bishops of the same ecclesiastical province.
2. A citizen of the mother city, as opposed to a colonist.
3. One who lives in a metropolis; also, one who has the manners and the ideas, or practices the customs, of a metropolis.
—adjective Pertaining to a metropolis or to a metropolitan. [<LL metropolitanus]