metro
Plural: metros
Noun
- A subway or underground railway system in a city.
- 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'"
- A rapid transit rail transport system, or a train in such systems, generally underground and serving a metropolitan area.
- An urban rapid transit rail transport system, normally with lighter track and light trains (i.e. an S-Bahn or similar), or a train in such systems.
- A metropolitan area.
Adj
- metropolitan
Examples
- He is going to the stadium by metro.
- His strategy was to create a metro of connected words across the Words With Friends board.
Origin / Etymology
From French métro, clipping of métropolitain (from Ancient Greek μήτηρ (mḗtēr, “mother”) + πόλις (pólis, “city”)), as in the Chemin de fer métropolitain, an early name for the Paris Métro. This name was a direct translation of "Metropolitan Railway", which was the original name of the earliest part of the London Underground, constructed in 1863.
Synonyms
subway, subway system, tube, underground, Tube, underground railway
Scrabble Score: 7
metro: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordmetro: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
metro: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary