Usually means: Foreign resident without citizenship rights.
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  1. metic: Merriam-Webster
  2. metic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. metic: Collins English Dictionary
  4. metic: Vocabulary.com
  5. metic: Wordnik
  6. metic: Wiktionary
  7. metic: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Metic, metic: Dictionary.com
  9. metic: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. Metic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Metic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. metic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. metic: Rhymezone
  14. Metic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. metic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. metic: FreeDictionary.org
  17. metic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. metic: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (metic)

noun:  (historical) In Ancient Greek city-states, a resident alien who did not have the rights of a citizen and who paid a tax for the right to live there.

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