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metropolitan

adjective

  1. of or constituting a metropolis (senses & )
  2. designating or of a metropolitan ()
  3. ☆ designating or of a population area consisting of a central city and smaller surrounding communities
  4. designating or of a mother country as distinguished from a colony, territory, etc.

noun

  1. a person who lives in and knows a metropolis (senses & ) or one who has the characteristic attitudes and manners of such a person
    1. an archbishop having authority over the bishops of a church province
    2. Eastern Ch. a bishop ranking just below a patriarch
  2. in ancient Greece, a citizen of a metropolis (sense )

See metropolitan in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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