metropolitan

noun

1. A bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop.

   “I knovv God by Miracle can inſtruct Kings, as he rained Mannah, and raiſed the Apoſtles from letterless Fiſher-men, to learned Metropolitans, and profound Doctours.”

   “Yet from the late thirteenth century the metropolitan based himself either in Moscow or Vladimir-on-the-Kliazma, which was also in Muscovite territory, and it became the ambition of the Muscovites to make this arrangement permanent.”

2. The inhabitant of a metropolis.

adj

1. Pertaining to the see or province of a metropolitan.
2. Of, or pertaining to, a metropolis or other large urban settlement.

   “But the one [letter] in the unknown script and with a metropolitan post mark—could it be from some London Woman? In spite of having lived in the country all her life and for the most part in remote Devon, Miss Tilehurst had always understood that such beings really existed.”

3. Of or pertaining to the parent state of a colony or territory, or the home country, e.g. metropolitan France

   “Policies relating to the elimination of racial discrimination which obtain in metropolitan New Zealand are applicable in the Tokelau Islands.”

   “the new political status of these islands marks a definite break with the traditional Dutch colonial practice to keep its Caribbean colonies at a distance; and, after 2010, Dutch metropolitan laws and dministrative practices started being implemented on the islands.”

4. (England, dated, not-comparable)Of or pertaining to London, United Kingdom.

name

1. The Metropolitan Line of London Underground, which has its ancestry in the Metropolitan Railway.