metro

See also Appendix:Variations of "metro"

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈmɛtɹəʊ/, X-SAMPA: /"mEtr@U/

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Etymology 1

French métro, apocopic form of métropolitain, from the Ancient Greek roots μήτηρ (meter, “mother”) + πόλις (polis, “city”).

Noun

metro (plural metros)

1. An underground railway.
2. A train that runs on such an underground railway.
3. An urban rapid transit light railway
4. A train that runs on such a railway.

Synonyms

• (underground railway): el/El (US), subway (US), Tube (the London underground), underground (UK), underground railway (UK)

Translations

underground railway

• Afrikaans: moltreinspoor (af)
• Arabic: مترو (ar) (mitru, metro) m
• Belarusian: метро (be) (metró) n
• Bulgarian: метро (bg) (metró) n
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 地鐵 (cmn), 地铁 (cmn) (dìtiě), 地下鐵路 (cmn), 地下铁路 (cmn) (dìxià tiělù)

• Czech: metro (cs) m
• Danish: metro (da) c, tunnelbane (da) c, T-bane (da) c, undergrundsbane (da) c, U-bane (da) c
• Dutch: metro (nl) m, ondergrondse (nl) f
• Esperanto: metroo (eo)
• Finnish: metro (fi)
• French: métro (fr) m, métropolitain (fr) m
• German: Metro (de) f, Untergrundbahn (de) f, U-Bahn (de) f
• Greek: μετρό (el) (metró) n, υπόγειος (el) (ipóγios) m
• Hebrew: מטרו (he)
• Hungarian: metró (hu), földalatti (hu) (underground only)
• Irish: traein faoi thalamh (ga) f

• Italian: metropolitana (it) f, metrò (it) m and f
• Japanese: 地下鉄 (ja) (ちかてつ, chikatetsu), メトロ (ja) (metoro)
• Korean: 지하철 (ko) (jihacheol) (地下鐵)
• Macedonian: метро (mk) (metró) n
• Mongolian: метро (mn) (metró)
• Norwegian: tunnelbane (no) c, T-bane (no) c, metro (no) c, undergrunnsbane (no) c
• Polish: metro (pl) n
• Portuguese: metrô m (Brazil), metro m (Portugal)
• Russian: (indeclinable) метро (ru) (metró) n, метрополитен (ru) (metropolitén) m, (slang) подземка (ru) (podzémka) f
• Serbo-Croatian: метро (sh) n, metro (sh) n
• Slovak: metro (sk) n
• Slovene: metro (sl) n
• Spanish: metro (es) m
• Swedish: tunnelbana (sv) c, T-bana (sv) c
• Thai: เมโทร (th) (may-tror)
• Ukrainian: метро (uk) (metró) n
• Vietnamese: metro (vi), xe điện ngầm (vi)

train of underground railway

• Afrikaans: moltrein (af)
• Catalan: metro (ca) m
• Czech: metro (cs)
• Dutch: metro m, metrostel n

• Esperanto: metroo (eo)
• German: U-Bahn (de) f, Untergrundbahn (de) f
• Portuguese: metrô m (Brazil), metro m (Portugal)
• Spanish: metro (es) m

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of metropolitan.

Noun

metro (plural metros)

1. A metropolitan area.

Adjective

metro (comparative more metro, superlative most metro)

1. Metropolitan.

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Aragonese

Noun

metro m (plural metros)

1. metre

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Catalan

Noun

metro m (plural metros)

1. metro (train).

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Crimean Tatar

Noun

metro

1. metro, underground railway.

Declension

    declension of metro

nominative	metro
genitive	metronıñ
dative	metroğa
accusative	metronı
locative	metroda
ablative	metrodan

References

• Useinov & Mireev Dictionary, Simferopol, Dolya, 2002 [1]

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Czech

Noun

metro n

1. metro, subway (underground railway)

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Esperanto

Noun

metro (plural metroj, accusative singular metron, accusative plural metrojn)

1. metre (unit of measurement)
2. metrum of poetry

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Finnish

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Noun

metro

1. An underground, a subway, a Tube or a metro.

Declension

Declension of metro (type valo) singular plural nominative metro metrot genitive metron metrojen partitive metroa metroja accusative metro metron metrot inessive metrossa metroissa elative metrosta metroista illative metroon metroihin adessive metrolla metroilla ablative metrolta metroilta allative metrolle metroille essive metrona metroina translative metroksi metroiksi instructive – metroin abessive metrotta metroitta comitative – metroineen

Synonyms

• maanalainen

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Italian

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Noun

metro m (plural metri)

1. (unit of measure) metre, meter
2. ruler, ruler, measure
3. yardstick, criterion

Related terms

• centimetro
• chilometro
• decimetro
• metraggio
• metratura
• metrico
• metro cubo
• metrologia
• metro quadro
• millimetro

Noun

metro f (invariable)

1. (short form of metropolitana) subway (US), underground (UK), Tube (the London underground)

Synonyms

• metrò

Anagrams

• morte
• torme
• tremo, tremò

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Latin

Noun

metrō

1. dative singular of metrum
2. ablative singular of metrum

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Polish

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Noun

metro n

1. underground, subway, metro

Declension

    declension of metro

	singular	plural
nominative	metro	metra
genitive	metra	metr
dative	metru	metrom
accusative	metro	metra
instrumental	metrem	metrami
locative	metrze	metrach
vocative	metro	metra

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Portuguese

Noun

metro m (plural metros)

1. metre (unit of measurement)
2. (Portugal) underground, subway

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

mètrō m (Cyrillic spelling мѐтро̄)

1. metro

Declension

    declension of metro

	singular	plural
nominative	mètrō	metroi
genitive	metròa	metroa
dative	metrou	metroima
accusative	metro	metroe
vocative	metro	metroi
locative	metrou	metroima
instrumental	metroom	metroima

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Spanish

Noun

metro m (plural metros)

1. meter
2. metro