Talk:metro

Etymology?

I understand Paris was the first city to use the term Metro for a subway system but it doesn't come from French. It is a Greek term meaning mother, and when added to POLIS it means MOTHER city. That's where the etymology comes from.

Some cities in the US

Some cities in the US use the term for their tube systems. It could read "other than in the US or London, especially in Paris, but sometimes in the US," or something like that, but I think just taking out the part about "other than in the US or London," would flow better and be equivalently useful. 74.96.198.225 02:36, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

RFV discussion: January–February 2019

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metro

Not the railway, but the individual train. (An example like "I got on the metro" doesn't prove anything, since you can also say "I got on the London Underground".) Can we say e.g. "Paris is introducing longer metros" [trains]? No such sense in the modern Chambers Dictionary. Equinox ◑ 03:59, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

When you are waiting for the metro, what are you waiting for? The railway? It is easy to find examples, although mostly not in durable archived sources: “Informative count down of when the next metro will arrive. The metro's are always on time - some even a little early!“; “You don't have to get out the paid area, and the next metro will come in 5-10 minutes”; “The metro was delayed by eight minutes as protestors laid siege to the metro station.“  --Lambiam 14:55, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

While we are addressing this entry: do we really need two pairs of definitions one for underground and the other for light rail? As it is, we omit els, surface "heavy" commuter rail, and part of the NYC rapid transit system that runs on the surface. I doubt that the term metro necessarily excludes all those. That said, NY natives don't call the local rapid transit, street-car, and commuter rail systems or the trains that they run "metros". DCDuring (talk) 16:04, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

cited Kiwima (talk) 01:04, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 19:53, 18 February 2019 (UTC)