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metropolitan

1. met.ro.pol.i.tan \.me-tr*-'pa:l-*t-*n\ n 1: the primate of an 
   ecclesiastical province  2: one who lives in a metropolis or evinces 
   metropolitan manners or customs 
2. metropolitan aj [LL metropolitanus of the see of a metropolitan, fr. 
   metropolita, n]., metropolitan, fr. LGk me-tropolite-s, fr. me-tropolis see 
   of a metropolitan, fr. Gk, capital 1: of or constituting a metropolitan or 
   his see  2: of, relating to, or characteristic of a metropolis