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Metres Noun ˈmiːtə(R ˈmiːtər 50 Metre Swimming Pool Cat

Word3 metre
WordType (noun)
Phonetic /ˈmiːtə(r)/ /ˈmiːtər/
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  • a 50-metre swimming pool
  • every few metres the cat stopped and turned to look at me.
  • over 3 700 square metres of office space is available.
  • the huge sculpture is made of 500 cubic metres of ice.
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metre

(noun)/ˈmiːtə(r)/ /ˈmiːtər/
  1. a unit for measuring length; a hundred centimetres
    • a 50-metre swimming pool
    • Every few metres the cat stopped and turned to look at me.
    • Over 3 700 square metres of office space is available.
    • The huge sculpture is made of 500 cubic metres of ice.
    • an athlete running at 10 metres per second
  2. used in the name of races
    • She came second in the 200 metres.
    • the 4 × 100 metre(s) relay
  3. the arrangement of strong and weak stresses in lines of poetry that produces the rhythm; a particular example of this
    • She knows a lot about verse metre.
    • poems in a variety of metres
    • the hexameter, the epic metre of Homer

    Word Origin

    • senses 1 to 2 late 18th cent.: from French mètre, from Greek metron ‘measure’.
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