metropolitical

adjective

met·​ro·​political

¦me‧trō+

1

: metropolitan sense 1

metropolitical courts

2

obsolete : metropolitan sense 2

metropolitically

"+

adverb

Word History

Etymology

Late Latin metropoliticus (from Late Greek mētropolitikos, from mētropolitēs metropolite + -ikos -ic) + English -al

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