METROPOLITAN

a. n.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Of or 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. "Bishops metropolitan." Sir T. More.

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. Hook.

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