Thesaurus: metropolitan

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1. a. Of or pertaining to the capital or principal city of a country; as, metropolitan luxury.
2. a. Of, pertaining to, or designating, a metropolitan or the presiding bishop of a country or province, his office, or his dignity; as, metropolitan authority.
3. n. The superior or presiding bishop of a country or province.
4. n. An archbishop.
5. n. A bishop whose see is civil metropolis. His rank is intermediate between that of an archbishop and a patriarch.
6. adj. relating to or characteristic of a metropolis
7. n. in the Eastern Orthodox Church this title is given to a position between bishop and patriarch; equivalent to archbishop in western Christianity
8. n. a person who lives in a metropolis
9. 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. 1. The superior or presiding bishop of a country or province. 2. (Lat. Church.) An archbishop. 3. (Gr. Church) A bishop whose see is civil metropolis. His rank is intermediate between that of an archbishop and a patriarch. Hook.
10. Of, pertaining to, or designating, a metropolitan or thepresiding bishop of a country or province, his office, or hisdignity; as, metropolitan authority. "Bishops metropolitan." Sir T.More.
11. j:100 n. in the Eastern Orthodox Church this title is given to a position between bishop and patriarch; equivalent to archbishop in western Christianity n. a person who lives in a metropolis a. relating to or characteristic of a metropolis