relating to or denoting a metropolis or large city

the Boston metropolitan area

relating to or denoting the parent state of a colony

metropolitan Spain

relating to or denoting a metropolitan or his see

a metropolitan bishop

a bishop having authority over the bishops of a province, in particular (in Orthodox Churches) one ranking above archbishop and below patriarch

the post of Metropolitan of Moldavia and Bucovina

Metropolitan Aleksei of Leningrad and Novgorod

an inhabitant of a metropolis or large city

a sophisticated metropolitan