métro

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English

Noun

métro (plural métros)

  1. Alternative form of metro
    • 2005, Gini Anding, Witness on the Quay, iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 45:
      “Where are we going, Jean-Michel?” He answered jokingly, “To the métro. It’s often much better to take the métro than it is to drive, but we need to hurry. After 7:00 p.m. there are fewer métros that come through the Pont Marie station.”
    • 2008, Conrad Lucas II, William D. Norgard, “Upon Arrival: The Essentials”, in Europe Beyond Your Means: The Paris Edition, New York, N.Y., Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 45:
      On a crisp fall day, traveling by your lonesome during rush hour, the métro is surely your best option. Inflexibly refusing to take the métro because of social cachet or personal inconvenience is just bad policy, when you will have to spend ten times as much at triple the time to get to a specific destination in a taxi.
    • 2009, Cheryl A. Pientka, “Following an Itinerary”, in Paris for Dummies (Frommer’s), 5th edition, Wiley Publishing, Inc., part IV (Exploring Paris), page 275:
      On Day Five, take the métro to Opéra to visit the stunning Opéra Garnier with its mural by Marc Chagall.
    • 2017, Murielle Wenger, Stephen Trussel, “Transportation”, in Maigret’s World: A Reader’s Companion to Simenon’s Famous Detective, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, →ISBN, part II (The Policeman at Work), page 153:
      And so we can conclude from all this that when Maigret does take the métro, it’s always for a practical purpose, never for the pleasure of the voyage, a pleasure he can find in slumping in the seat of a taxi, or in smoking his pipe on the platform of a bus, while regarding the spectacle of the teeming streets of “his” city [].
    • 2019, Eric Maisel, “Pure Flâneur”, in A Writer’s Paris: A Guided Journey for the Creative Soul, Mineola, N.Y.: Ixia Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 14:
      Vary your strolling by taking the métro each day to a new neighborhood, even inauspiciously bourgeois ones like the 15th or the 16th arrondissements, and begin your wandering.

French

Etymology

Clipping of métropolitain.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /me.tʁo/
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  • Rhymes: -o

Noun

métro m (plural métros)

  1. metro; subway (US), underground (UK), Tube (UK)
  2. short for métropole; metropolis
  3. (France, informal) resident or native of metropolitan France

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