Noun: metre
| Singular | metre |
| Plural | metres |
Sample Sentences
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Holonyms: kilometre < megametre < gigametre < terametre < petametre
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Meronyms: picometre < nanometre < micrometre < millimetre < centimetre < decimetre
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The measures of length above the metre are ten times ... greater than the metre. [1797, The Monthly magazine and British register, number 3:]
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A dress length of 8 metres of the best quality costs 58 francs. [1873 April, The Young Englishwoman:]
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The 12-metre yachts ... can be sailed efficiently with four paid hands. [1928 April 15, The Observer:]
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It depicted simply an enormous face, more than a metre wide: the face of a man of about forty-five, with a heavy black mustache and ruggedly handsome features. [1949 June 8, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC, Part I, Chapter I:]
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It is not permissible to use abbreviations for unit symbols or unit names, such as sec (for either s or second), sq. mm (for either mm² or square millimetre), cc (for either cm³ or cubic centimetre), or mps (for either m/s or metre per second). [2025 August 26, “The International System of Units (SI)”, in Bureau International des Poids et Mesures, archived from the original on 17 Sep 2025, page 147:]
Nouns inflected like metre
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French mètre, from Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, “measure, rule, length, size, poetic metre”). Doublet of meter, metron, and mether. See: French Nouns '
mètre', Ancient Greek Nouns '
μέτρον'.
Verbs referencing "metre"
Zulu Nouns
imitha.