square meter
10
1.0
- noun
- /ˈskwɛr ˈmiːtər/
- US
:
metro cuadrado
- I have created 126 square meters of soil.
- grams per square meter
- megajoules per square meter
- kilowatts per square meter
We want not only, you know, like square meters, rooms, bathrooms, you actually take decisions based on the combinations.
- We want not only, you know, like square meters, rooms, bathrooms, you actually take decisions based on the combinations.
Examples
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Most of these backyards were relatively large, between 200 and 299 square meters.
Academic text (2004) -
We calculated three square meters and realized that many of our closets are larger than that.
Academic text (1992) -
We found the three men moving a huge stone, approximately a square meter in size.
Fiction book (2001) -
The government limits each person to three square meters of living space.
Academic text (1992) -
So each apartment has over 300 square meters of premium living space.
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Such a converter would have a footprint of about 300 square meters and could power a neighborhood.
Academic text (2010) -
"Twenty-five thousand square meters of garden, a house that needs a little sprucing up."
Fiction book (1993) -
Amsterdam's Centrale Bibliotheek, at 28,000 square meters, is the largest library in the Netherlands.
Blog text (7) -
The total area is 2,684 square metres including a sizeable condensate system for harvesting rainwater, below grade.
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The new park has over 500 square meters of space for recreational activities.
Synonyms
A unit of area equal to one square metre used for measuring land
How Big
84
1.9
- US
15
2.6
- US
10
1.0
- UK
3
1.8
- US
133
1.4
- US
22
1.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'square' (a square shape) combined with 'meter' (a unit of length) yields a unit of area (the area of a one-meter square), so a B1 learner who knows both words can derive the MWE's meaning. This follows a regular measurement-naming pattern common across languages (e.g., Spanish 'metro cuadrado'), which further increases transparency.
Etymology
Square meter comes from the simple picture of a square whose sides are one meter long. The space inside that square is the 'area', so today square meter means the size or 'area' of a surface when each side measures one meter.