noun an archbishop.
2. metropolitan ·noun the superior or presiding bishop of a country or province.
3. metropolitan ·adj of or pertaining to the capital or principal city of a country; as, metropolitan luxury.
4. metropolitan ·noun a bishop whose see is civil metropolis. his rank is intermediate between that of an archbishop and a patriarch.
5. metropolitan ·adj of, pertaining to, or designating, a metropolitan or the presiding bishop of a country or province, his office, or his dignity; as, metropolitan authority.