metropolitan Definition

1. Belonging or relating to, typical of, or situated in, a large city.

Thesaurus: urban, cosmopolitan, municipal, civic.
2. Belonging or referring to a country's mainland, as opposed to its overseas territories.
3. Belonging or relating to the mother church, or chief see, of a province.

1. Christianity.
In the Catholic and Orthodox Churches: a bishop, usually an archbishop, with authority over all the bishops in a province.
2. An inhabitant of a metropolis.