metro
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1.8
- noun
- /ˈmɛtroʊ/
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metro
- I rode the LA Metro to and from this track.
But unfortunately there had been a bombing the Paris metro not that long before that.
- But unfortunately there had been a bombing the Paris metro not that long before that.
- Gloomy mouth, a young Italian woman bending to retrieve a dropped Metro card.
- So remember, the terrorists might have their goal is they're going to attack the metro in DC, right?
- So let's imagine that we want to do that and besides that to have driverless cars and a metro system that really works and is extensive.
- Gets on the train in in the up north in the metro.
- And you, you, you may have it at the bus stop on the metro.
- But they're saying, if you think about it, it's not just those movies, but any of these movies, trains, subways, metros, cars, buses.
Examples
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I had to take the metro.
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There's a metro stop nearby.
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Our plan right now is just to ride the metro, which is free.
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But you also have lots of metro systems in cities that work like that.
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Right here we have the metro station.
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Then we just get the the metro back to downtown.
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I'm taking the metro with my friends.
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I do most of my outlining when I'm on the metro to work.
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A metro train screams around the bend, lighting up the whole metro tunnel.
Fiction book (1997) -
I took the metro to the concert last night.
Synonyms
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1.0
Underground trains that carry people in a city
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2.4
An underground railway in London that carries people
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2.4
Electric trains that run under a city and carry many people
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3.6
An electric train system that runs below a city's streets
Compounds
- Archaic
A historical measure of length based on a swinging weight that completes one swing in one second
How Extensive
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50
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Metro is short for the French métropolitain, from the Greek metropolis meaning 'mother city' or 'big city'. It began as the name for Paris's metropolitan railway, so a metro is an underground railway for a city.