1. (a.) Pertaining to the capital or principal city of a country; as, metropolitan luxury\.

2. (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.

3. (n.) The superior or presiding bishop of a country or province.

4. (n.) An archbishop.

5. (n.) A bishop whose see is civil metropolis. His rank is intermediate between that of an archbishop and a patriarch.

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