<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>of, noting, or characteristic of a metropolis or its inhabitants, especially in culture, sophistication, or in accepting and combining a wide variety of people, ideas, etc.</li><li>of or relating to a large city, its surrounding suburbs, and other neighboring communities: the New York metropolitan area</li><li>pertaining to or constituting a mother country</li><li>pertaining to an ecclesiastical metropolis</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>an inhabitant of a metropolis</li><li>a person who has the sophistication, fashionable taste, or other habits and manners associated with those who live in a metropolis</li><li>Eastern Church: the head of an ecclesiastical province</li><li>an archbishop in the Church of England</li><li>Roman Catholic Church: an archbishop who has authority over one or more suffragan sees</li><li>(in ancient Greece) a citizen of the mother city or parent state of a colony</li></ul>