metro

1. 1.

   an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city)

   “in Paris the subway system is called the `metro' and in London it is called the `tube' or the `underground'”

   Synonymstubeundergroundsubway systemsubway

   Broaderrailway

Other forms of metro

plural

metroes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about metro

What does metro mean?

metro means "an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city)".

How many syllables are in metro?

metro has 2 syllables: met-ro. The stress falls on "met". In IPA it is /ˈmɛˌtɹoʊ/.

What is another word for metro?

Close synonyms include tube, underground, subway system, subway. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is metro a common word?

metro is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with metro?

1 word rhymes with metro. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.