Me‐trop″o‐lis (?), n. [L. metropolis, Gr. �, prop., the mother city (in relation to colonies); � mother + � city. See Mother, and Police.]
1. The mother city; the chief city of a kingdom, state, or country.
gray metropolis of the North. Tennyson.
2. (Eccl.) The seat, or see, of the metropolitan, or highest church dignitary.
The great metropolis and see of Rome. Shak.