METROPOLITAN

I. noun Date: 14th century the primate of an ecclesiastical province, one who lives in a metropolis or displays ~ manners or customs, II. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin ~us of the see of a ~, from metropolita, noun, ~, from Late Greek mētropolitēs, from mētropolis see of a ~, from Greek, capital Date: 15th century of or constituting a ~ or his see, of, relating to, or characteristic of a metropolis and sometimes including its suburbs, of, relating to, or constituting a mother country as distinguished from a colony