metre

me·tre ¹  (mtr)

n. Chiefly British

Variant of meter¹.

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metre ¹ or US meter

Noun

the basic SI unit of length, equal to 100 centimetres (39.37 inches): the majority of people are between one and a half and two metres tall [same as metre²]

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metre ² or US meter

Noun

1. Prosody the rhythmic arrangement of syllables in verse, usually according to the number and kind of feet in a line

2. Music chiefly US the rhythmic arrangement of the beat in a piece of music [Greek metron measure]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	metre - the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards) m, meter metric linear unit - a linear unit of distance in metric terms decimeter, decimetre, dm - a metric unit of length equal to one tenth of a meter decameter, decametre, dekameter, dekametre, dkm, dam - a metric unit of length equal to ten meters
	2.	metre - (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse cadence, meter, measure, beat metrics, prosody - the study of poetic meter and the art of versification poetic rhythm, rhythmic pattern, prosody - (prosody) a system of versification catalexis - the absence of a syllable in the last foot of a line or verse scansion - analysis of verse into metrical patterns common meter, common measure - the usual (iambic) meter of a ballad metrical foot, metrical unit, foot - (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm
	3.	metre - rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration meter, time rhythmicity - the rhythmic property imparted by the accents and relative durations of notes in a piece of music

Translations

metre, meter (US) [ˈmiːtəʳ] n → metro

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metre (US), meter [ˈmiːtəʳ] n → mètre m

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metre (US) meter [ˈmiːtəʳ] n → Meter m or nt

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metre (US), meter [ˈmiːtəʳ] n → metro