metro

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noun

met·​ro ˈme-(ˌ)trō How to pronounce metro (audio)
in French context also
mā-ˈtrō How to pronounce metro (audio)
plural metros

metro

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adjective

met·​ro ˈme-(ˌ)trō How to pronounce metro (audio)

Examples of metro in a Sentence

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Noun
Home prices last year rose an average of 6.7% in the country's 20 biggest metro areas, according to the latest S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller data. CBS News, 15 Mar. 2024 Three of the Top 10 metro growth areas were in the Sunshine State—and in terms of overall percentage growth, Florida had four of the five fastest growing metro areas. Chris Morris, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2024 In many of the largest metro areas in the country, neighborhoods on opposite ends of the opportunity spectrum could be a mile away from each other − or even border one another. Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2024 After Public Investigator published a story last week about a customer who couldn't cancel his membership with Take 5 Car Wash, more than a dozen people in the Milwaukee metro area reached out to share similar frustrations. Gina Lee Castro, Journal Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2024 Thursday’s severe weather risk zone stretches from Ohio and Indiana all the way to Waco, Tex., and includes a number of major metro areas — Dallas; Memphis and Jackson, Tenn.; Evansville, Ind.; Cincinnati; Indianapolis; and the southern suburbs of Chicago. Naomi Schanen, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024 The forecast is calling for 8 to 16 inches of snow for the Denver metro area, with the highest totals near the foothills and the Palmer Divide. Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 13 Mar. 2024 That boom has been even more pronounced in cities: The Charlotte and Raleigh areas were among the top 10 metro areas nationally for population growth, according to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Nicholas Nehamas, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2024 The department said donations also can be made in person through Public Safety Credit Union branches in the metro. Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 1 Mar. 2024
Adjective
Before 2016, there typically wasn’t much difference in how metro and non-metro counties voted for state Supreme Court. Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2023 The election results also support the deepening metro vs. non-metro divide with the Seventh District going Republican, the Minnesota Senate remaining Republican, and Trump carrying most non-metro counties, all in the face of Democrat Joe Biden carrying the state. Star Tribune, 24 Dec. 2020 And every day, trains crawl through metro Atlanta suburbs from Marietta to Morrow. Kelly Yamanouchi, ajc, 24 Feb. 2023 For the most part they’re considered country inns—nothing too fancy—and are located in non-metro areas, including the island’s beach towns and mountain villages. Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 May 2022 The plan is for all metro area Cupcake Stations to eventually be remodeled and rebranded as Bakehouse46. Steve Pepple, Detroit Free Press, 13 May 2020 Restaurants in the metro Atlanta region have since Monday been able to accept customers to eat inside, as long as the businesses follow a slate of 39 provisions set up by the state government. Kerry Picket, Washington Examiner, 29 Apr. 2020 At that time in March, most metro Detroit hospitals were filling up with patients who were sick with coronavirus as the region's surge in cases began. Kristen Jordan Shamus, Freep.com, 10 May 2020

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Word History

Etymology

Noun

French métro, short for (chemin de fer) métropolitain metropolitan railroad

First Known Use

Noun

1904, in the meaning defined above

Adjective

1953, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of metro was in 1904

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“Metro.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/metro. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

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metro

noun
met·​ro
ˈme-trō
plural metros

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