metropolitan: Meaning and Definition of

met•ro•pol•i•tan

1. of, noting, or characteristic of a metropolis or its inhabitants, esp. in culture, sophistication, or in accepting and combining a wide variety of people, ideas, etc.
2. of or pertaining to a large city, its surrounding suburbs, and other neighboring communities: the New York metropolitan area.
3. pertaining to or constituting a mother country.
4. pertaining to an ecclesiastical metropolis.

1. an inhabitant of a metropolis.
2. a person who has the sophistication, fashionable taste, or other habits and manners associated with those who live in a metropolis.
3. the head of an ecclesiastical province.
4. an archbishop in the Church of England.
5. an archbishop who has authority over one or more suffragan sees.
6. (in ancient Greece) a citizen of the mother city or parent state of a colony.