n.
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin metropolitanus of the see of a metropolitan, from metropolita, noun, metropolitan, from Late Greek m ē tropolit ē s, from m ē tropolis see of a metropolitan, from Greek, capital
Date: 15th century
1 : of or constituting a metropolitan or his see
2 : of, relating to, or characteristic of a metropolis and sometimes including its suburbs
3 : of, relating to, or constituting a mother country as distinguished from a colony