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Meaning Of Metropolitan
a.
Of or pertaining to the capital or principal city of
a country; as, metropolitan luxury.
a.
Of, pertaining to, or designating, a metropolitan or
the presiding bishop of a country or province, his office, or his
dignity; as, metropolitan authority.
n.
The superior or presiding bishop of a country or
province.
n.
An archbishop.
n.
A bishop whose see is civil metropolis. His rank is
intermediate between that of an archbishop and a patriarch.