adjective [onlybeforenoun]
1 (also AmE informal metro) connected with a large or capital city:
the New York metropolitan area * metropolitan districts / regions
2 connected with a particular country rather than with the other regions of the world that the country controls:
metropolitan France / Spain
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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