[met.ro.pol.i.tan] n (14c) 1: the primate of an ecclesiastical province
2: one who lives in a metropolis or displays metropolitan manners or customs
[2]metropolitan adj [ME, fr. LL metropolitanus of the see of a metropolitan, fr. metropolita, n., metropolitan, fr. LGk metropolites, fr. metropolis see of a metropolitan, fr. Gk, capital] (15c) 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