metropolitan

Meanings

Plural: metropolitans

Noun

• in the Eastern Orthodox Church this title is given to a position between bishop and patriarch; equivalent to archbishop in western Christianity
• a person who lives in a metropolis
• A bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop.
• The inhabitant of a metropolis.

Adjective

• relating to or characteristic of a metropolis
  • "metropolitan area"

Adj

• Pertaining to the see or province of a metropolitan.
• Of, or pertaining to, a metropolis or other large urban settlement.
• Of or pertaining to the parent state of a colony or territory, or the home country, e.g. metropolitan France

Synonyms

metropolitan bishop

Antonyms

non-metropolitan

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