FromFrench mètre Ancient Greek μέτρον ( métron ,“ measure, rule, length, size, poetic metre ” ) .Doublet ofmeter metron , and mether
metre (plural metres
The basicunit oflength in theInternational System of Units (SI: Système International d'Unités), equal to the distance travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299 792 458 seconds. The metre is equal to 39+ 47 ⁄ 127 imperial inches .Holonyms: kilometre megametre gigametre terametre petametre Meronyms: picometre nanometre micrometre millimetre centimetre decimetre 1797 The Monthly magazine and British register , number 3:The measures of length above themetre are ten times ... greater than themetre .
1873 The Young Englishwoman :A dress length of 8metres of the best quality costs 58 francs.
1928 April 15,The Observer :The 12-metre yachts ... can be sailed efficiently with four paid hands.
2025 August, “The International System of Units (SI)”, inBureau International des Poids et Mesures [2] the original on17 September 2025 , page147 :It is not permissible to use abbreviations for unit symbols or unit names, such as sec (for either s or second), sq. mm (for either mm2 or square millimetre), cc (for either cm3 or cubic centimetre), or mps (for either m/s ormetre per second).
( Metric scale )
Tok Pisin:mita → Burmese:မီတာ ( mita ) → Chinese:米突 ( mǐtū, mǐtú ) → Japanese:メーター ( mētā ) → Korean:미터 ( miteo ) ( South Korea ) ,메터 ( meteo ) ( North Korea, China ) → Māori:mita → Malay:meter → Sinhalese:මීටර් ( mīṭar ) → Swahili:mita → Tamil:மீட்டர் ( mīṭṭar ) → Yoruba:mítà unit of length
Afrikaans:meter (af) Albanian:metër (sq) m Amharic:ሜትር ( metr ) Arabic:مِتْر (ar) m ( mitr ) Egyptian Arabic:متر m ( metr ) Hijazi Arabic:متر m ( mitir ) Armenian:մետր (hy) ( metr ) Asturian:metru m Azerbaijani:metr (az) Bashkir:метр ( metr ) Belarusian:метр m ( mjetr ) ,мэ́тар m ( métar ) ( Taraškievica ) Bengali:মিটার (bn) ( miṭar ) Bulgarian:ме́тър (bg) m ( métǎr ) Burmese:မီတာ (my) ( mita ) Catalan:metre (ca) m Chinese:Cantonese:米 (yue) ( mai5 , mai1 ) ,公尺 ( gung1 cek3 ) Dungan:ми ( mi ) ,метр ( mi͡ətr ) Hakka:米 ( mí ) ,公尺 ( kûng-chhak ) ,米打 ( mé-tá ) Hokkien:米 (zh-min-nan) ( bí ) ,公尺 (zh-min-nan) ( kong-chhioh ) ,米達 / 米达 ( bí-ta̍t ) ( dated ) Mandarin:米 (zh) ( mǐ ) ,公尺 (zh) ( gōngchǐ ) ,米突 (zh) ( mǐtū, mǐtú ) ( dated ) Circassian:West Circassian:метр ( metr ) Czech:metr (cs) m Danish:meter (da) c Dutch:meter (nl) m Esperanto:metro (eo) Estonian:meeter Faroese:metur m Finnish:metri (fi) French:mètre (fr) m Galician:metro (gl) m Georgian:მეტრი ( meṭri ) German:Meter (de) m Greek:μέτρο (el) n ( métro ) Gujarati:મીટર ( mīṭar ) Haitian Creole:mèt Hawaiian:mīka Hebrew:מֶטֶר (he) m ( méter ) Hindi:मीटर (hi) m ( mīṭar ) Hungarian:méter (hu) Icelandic:metri (is) m Ido:metro (io) Indonesian:meter (id) Ingrian:metra Interlingua:metro Irish:méadar m Italian:metro (it) m Japanese:メートル (ja) ( mētoru ) ,㍍ (ja) ( mētoru ) Jarai:mĕt Kannada:ಮೀಟರು (kn) ( mīṭaru ) Kazakh:метр ( metr ) Khmer:ម៉ែត្រ (km) ( maet ) Korean:미터 (ko) ( miteo ) ,메터 (ko) ( meteo ) ( North Korea ) Kyrgyz:метр (ky) ( metr ) Lao:ແມັດ (lo) ( mæt ) Latin:metrum (la) Latvian:metrs (lv) m Limburgish:maeter (li) Lingala:metele Lithuanian:metras (lt) m Lü:ᦶᦙᧆ ( maed ) Macedonian:метар m ( metar ) Malay:meter (ms) Malayalam:മീറ്റർ (ml) ( mīṟṟaṟ ) Māori:mita Mòcheno:meter m Mongolian:Cyrillic:метр (mn) ( metr ) Norwegian:Bokmål:meter (no) m Nynorsk:meter (no) m Ossetian:метр ( metr ) Pannonian Rusyn:метер m ( meter ) Persian:متر (fa) ( metr ) Polish:metr (pl) m Portuguese:metro (pt) m Romanian:metru (ro) m Russian:метр (ru) m ( metr ) Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:ме̏тар m Latin:mȅtar (sh) m Shan:မႅတ် ( mět ) Sinhalese:මීටර් ( mīṭar ) Slovak:meter m Slovene:meter (sl) m Spanish:metro (es) m Swahili:mita (sw) Swedish:meter (sv) c Tagalog:metro (tl) ,panukat Tajik:метр (tg) ( metr ) Tamil:மீட்டர் (ta) ( mīṭṭar ) Tatar:метр ( metr ) Telugu:మీటరు ( mīṭaru ) Thai:เมตร (th) ( méet ) Tigrinya:ሜትሮ ( metro ) Turkish:metre (tr) Turkmen:metr Ukrainian:метр m ( metr ) Urdu:میٹر ( mīṭar ) Uyghur:مېتىر ( mëtir ) Uzbek:metr (uz) Vietnamese:mét (vi) ,thước (vi) ,thước tây (vi) Walloon:mete (wa) m Yakut:миэтэрэ ( mietere ) Yiddish:מעטער m ( meter ) Yoruba:mítà
“metre ”, inCollins English Dictionary
metre (third-person singular simple present metres present participle metring simple past and past participle metred
( UK , rare ) Alternative spelling ofmeter .The standard spelling of the verb meaningto measure ismeter throughout the English-speaking world. The use of the spellingmetre for this sense (outside music and poetry) is possibly a misspelling.
FromOld English Latin metrum Ancient Greek μέτρον ( métron ,“ measure, rule, length, size, poetic metre ” ) .
metre (countable anduncountable plural metres
( UK , Canada ) rhythm ormeasure inlanguage (especiallyverse ) andmusical composition .Hyponym: musical time rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition
metre (third-person singular simple present metres present participle metring simple past and past participle metred
( poetry , music ) Borrowed fromFrench mètre
metre m plural metres
metre meter ( unit of measure, 100 cm ) ( poetry , music ) metre meter ( the rhythm of a song or poem ) Inherited fromOld Catalan metre Latin mittere Occitan metre French mettre Spanish meter
metre (first-person singular present meto first-person singular preterite metí past participle mes root stress :( Central ) /ɛ/;( Valencia ) /e/;( Balearic ) /ə/
( transitive , archaic ) put , toplace Synonym: posar ( transitive , archaic ) set “metre ”, inDiccionari de la llengua catalana Dictionary of the Catalan Language Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan:Institut d'Estudis Catalans ], April 2007 “metre ”, inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana ,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana ,2026 “metre” inDiccionari normatiu valencià ,Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua .“metre” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear , Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.Inherited fromLatin mittere
metre ( ORB, broad )
toput mettre in DicoFranPro:Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – ondicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca metre in Lo trèsor Arpitan – onarpitan.eu FromOld Occitan metre Latin mittere [ 1]
metre
( transitive ) put , toplace This verb needs aninflection-table template .
^ Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana [1] 2008-2025 , page376 FromLatin mittere
metre
toput , toplace 1260–1267 Brunetto Latini , “Cist premiers livres parole de la naissance de toutes choses [This first book talks about the birth of all things ]” (chapter 1),Livre I - Premiere partie , inLivres dou Tresor [Book of Treasures Li livres dou tresor par Brunetto Latini [3] 1863 ,page 1 :si come li sires qui vuet en petit leu amasser choses de grandisme vaillance[ …] [ …] met il les plus chieres choses et les plus precieux joiaus que il puet, selonc sa bone entencion, tout autressi est li cors de cest livre compilez de sapience Just like the lord, who wishes to accumulate very valuable things in a tiny place [ …] in order to increase his power, [ …] puts there—according to his good intention—the dearest things and the most precious jewels he can, so the body of this book is filled with knowledge
simple compound infinitive metre avoir mis gerund enmetant gerund ofavoir present participle metant past participle mis person singular plural first second third first second third indicative jo tu il nos vos il simple present met mez met metons metez metent imperfect metoie meteie metoies meteies metoit meteit metiiens metiens metiiez metiez metoient meteient preterite mis meṣis mist meṣimes meṣistes misdrent future metrai metras metra metrons metroiz metreiz metrez metront conditional metroie metreie metroies metreies metroit metreit metriiens metriens metriiez metriez metroient metreient compound present perfect present tense ofavoir pluperfect imperfect tense ofavoir past anterior preterite tense ofavoir future perfect future tense ofavoir conditional perfect conditional tense ofavoir subjunctive que jo que tu qu’il que nos que vos qu’il simple present mete metes mete metons metez metent imperfect meṣisse meṣisses meṣist meṣissons meṣissiens meṣissoiz meṣissez meṣissiez meṣissent compound past present subjunctive ofavoir pluperfect imperfect subjunctive ofavoir imperative – tu – nos vos – — met — metons metez —
metre Inherited fromOttoman Turkish متره ( metre ) , fromFrench mètre Latin metrum Ancient Greek μέτρον ( métron ) .
IPA (key ) : /ˈmetɾe/ Hyphenation:met‧re metre (definite accusative metreyi plural metreler
metre meter (unit of measure, 100 cm)rule , foldingrule “metre ”, inTurkish dictionaries , Türk Dil Kurumu 
