metre

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

metre [metre metres] (especially US meter)BrE [ˈmiːtə(r)] NAmE [ˈmiːtər] noun
1. countable (abbr.m)a unit for measuring length; a hundred centimetres
2. countable, uncountable (abbr.m)used in the name of races
• She came second in the 200 metres.
•the 4×100 metre(s) relay
3. uncountable, countable the arrangement of strong and weak stresses in lines of poetry that produces the rhythm; a particular example of this
See also: ↑meter

Word Origin:
senses 1 to 2 late 18th cent. French mètre Greek metron ‘measure’ sense 3 Old English Middle English Old French metre Latin metrum Greek metron ‘measure’

Example Bank:
•She knows a lot about verse metre.
•poems in a variety of metres

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  meter, time, measure, beat, cadence, m