Plural form of region, Ireland, UK the rest of the country excluding the capital city or metropolitan region

in the Eastern Orthodox Church this title is given to a position between bishop and patriarch; equivalent to archbishop in western Christianity, a person who lives in a metropolis, A citizen of a metropolis, especially one who displays urbane characteristics, attitudes, and values, adjective_ Of or relating to an ecclesiastical metropolitan, Of, relating to, or characteristic of a major city, relating to or characteristic of a metropolis

One of a series of decimal submultiples of the meter_ as, metro -sixteen, the sixteenth of this series of metros. See the extract and uno, A metropolitan area, an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city), adjective_ Metropolitan