Met″ic (? or?; 277), n. [Gr. �, prop., changing one's abode; �, indicating change + � house, abode: cf. L. metoecus, F. métèque.] (Gr. Antiq.) A sojourner; an immigrant; an alien resident in a Grecian city, but not a citizen. Mitford.
The whole force of Athens, metics as well as citizens, and all the strangers who were then in the city. Jowett (Thucyd.).