[Edinburgh] gray metropolis of the North.
Tennyson.
2. (Eccl.) The seat, or see, of the metropolitan, or highest church
dignitary.
The great metropolis and see of Rome.
Shak.
Met`ro*pol"i*tan (?; 277), a. [L. metropolitanus: cf. F.
métropolitain.]
1. Of or pertaining to the capital or principal city of a country; as,
metropolitan luxury.
2. (Eccl.) 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.
Met`ro*pol"i*tan, n. [LL. metropolitanus.] 1. The superior or presiding
bishop of a country or province.