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Metropolitan

Metropolitan Meaning & Definition
Metropolitan Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Metropolitan?

[n] a person who lives in a metropolis
[adj] relating to or characteristic of a metropolis; "metropolitan area"

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See Also | occupant | occupier | resident

Metropolitan In Webster's Dictionary

\Met`ro*pol"i*tan\ (?; 277), a. [L. metropolitanus: cf. F. m['e]tropolitain.] 1. Of or pertaining to the capital or principal city of a country; as, metropolitan luxury. 2. (Eccl.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a metropolitan or the presiding bishop of a country or province, his office, or his dignity; as, metropolitan authority. ``Bishops metropolitan.'' --Sir T. More.
\Met`ro*pol"i*tan\, n. [LL. metropolitanus.] 1. The superior or presiding bishop of a country or province. 2. (Lat. Church.) An archbishop. 3. (Gr. Church) A bishop whose see is civil metropolis. His rank is intermediate between that of an archbishop and a patriarch. --Hook.

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