Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - metropolitan

 I. noun  Date: 14th century  1. the primate of an ecclesiastical province  2. one who lives in a metropolis or displays ~ manners or customs  II. adjective  Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin ~us of the see of a ~, from metropolita, noun, ~, from Late Greek metropolites, from metropolis see of a ~, from Greek, capital  Date: 15th century  1. of or constituting a ~ or his see  2. of, relating to, or characteristic of a metropolis and sometimes including its suburbs  3. of, relating to, or constituting a mother country as distinguished from a colony