metropolitan

metropolitan
{{11}}metropolitan (adj.) 1540s, "belonging to an ecclesiastical metropolis," from L.L. metropolitanus, from Gk. metropolites "resident of a city," from metropolis (see METROPOLITAN (Cf. metropolitan) (n.)). Meaning "belonging to a chief or capital city" is from 1550s. In reference to underground city railways, it is attested from 1867.
{{12}}metropolitan (n.) early 15c., "bishop having oversight of other bishops," from L.L. metropolitanus, from Gk. metropolis "mother city" (from which others have been colonized), also "capital city," from meter "mother" (see MOTHER (Cf. mother) (n.1)) + polis "city" (see POLICY (Cf. policy) (1)).
In Greek, "parent state of a colony;" later, "see of a metropolitan bishop." In the West, the position now roughly corresponds to archbishop, but in the Greek church it ranks above it.

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