Definition of metropolitan

• a. - Of or pertaining to the capital or principal city of a country; as, metropolitan luxury.
• 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.
• n. - The superior or presiding bishop of a country or province.
• n. - An archbishop.
• n. - A bishop whose see is civil metropolis. His rank is intermediate between that of an archbishop and a patriarch.