metropolitan

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of a major city.
• adjective Of or constituting a large city or urbanized area, including adjacent suburbs and towns.
• adjective Of, relating to, or constituting the home territory of an imperial or colonial state.
• adjective Of or relating to an ecclesiastical metropolitan.
• noun A citizen of a metropolis, especially one who displays urbane characteristics, attitudes, and values.
• noun In the Western Christian churches, a bishop with provincial powers, with some authority over suffragan bishops.
• noun In most Eastern Orthodox churches, a bishop who is head of an ecclesiastical province and ranks next below the patriarch.
• noun In the Greek Orthodox church, a bishop ranking next below an archbishop.

from The Century Dictionary.

• Of or pertaining to a metropolis, in any sense; residing in or connected with a metropolis: as, metropolitan enterprise; metropolitan police.
• Of or pertaining to the chief see of an ecclesiastical province: as, a metropolitan church.
• noun A citizen of the mother city or parent state of a colony. See metropolis, 1.
• noun Eccles.: In the early Christian church, the bishop of the municipal capital of a province or eparchy, who had a general ecclesiastical superintendence over the bishops and churches of his province, continued, ordained, and when necessary excommunicated the bishops, and convened and presided over the provincial synods.
• noun In modern usage, in the Roman Catholic and other episcopal churches, any archbishop who has bishops under his authority.
• noun In the Greek Church, the bishop of the municipal capital of a province, who is in rank intermediate between a patriarch and a bishop or titular archbishop.
• noun A chief city; a metropolis.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• adjective Of or pertaining to the capital or principal city of a country.
• adjective (Eccl.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a metropolitan or the presiding bishop of a country or province, his office, or his dignity.
• noun The superior or presiding bishop of a country or province.
• noun (Lat. Church.) An archbishop.
• noun (Gr. Church) A bishop whose see is a civil metropolis. His rank is intermediate between that of an archbishop and a patriarch.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a person who lives in a metropolis
• adjective relating to or characteristic of a metropolis
• noun in the Eastern Orthodox Church this title is given to a position between bishop and patriarch; equivalent to archbishop in western Christianity