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  Metropolitan \Met`ro*pol"i*tan\ (?; 277), a. [L. metropolitanus:
     cf. F. m['e]tropolitain.]
     1. Of or pertaining to the capital or principal city of a
        country; as, metropolitan luxury.
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     2. (Eccl.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a metropolitan
        or the presiding bishop of a country or province, his
        office, or his dignity; as, metropolitan authority.
        "Bishops metropolitan." --Sir T. More.
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  Metropolitan \Met`ro*pol"i*tan\, n. [LL. metropolitanus.]
     1. The superior or presiding bishop of a country or province.
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     2. (Lat. Church.) An archbishop.
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     3. (Gr. Church) A bishop whose see is a civil metropolis. His
        rank is intermediate between that of an archbishop and a
        patriarch; as, the metropolitan of Constantinople. --Hook.
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  metropolitan
      adj 1: relating to or characteristic of a metropolis;
             "metropolitan area"
      n 1: in the Eastern Orthodox Church this title is given to a
           position between bishop and patriarch; equivalent to
           archbishop in western Christianity
      2: a person who lives in a metropolis