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▪ I. † metro1 Obs.
[It. or Sp.]
= metre n.1
1619H. Hutton Follies Anat. Ep. Ded., Peruse my writ, And vse these Metroes of true meaning wit. Ibid. A 6 b, Nor in a Metro shew my Cupide's fire.
▪ II. metro2 colloq.|ˈmeɪtrəʊ|
[Fr., abbrev. of (Chemin de Fer) Métropolitain Metropolitan Railway.]
The Metropolitan Underground Railway of Paris (usu. in form métro). Hence applied to the underground railway in other countries. (Applied to London trains metro |ˈmɛtrəʊ| is an abbreviation of metropolitan a. rather than a use in English of F. métro.)
1904A. Bennett Jrnl. (1932) I. 202 Wandering down through the Palais Royal and then taking the Métro. 1919Mencken Amer. Lang. 110 In England..a subway is always a tube, or the underground, or the Metro. 1924S. Story Dining in Paris 12 Business men, clerks, stockbrokers..have lit the eternal cigarette..before going to a restaurant for dinner or taking omnibus or ‘metro’ to their distant homes. 1927W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 66 Recently attempts have been made to put the short form metro [for the Underground railway in London] before the public. 1953X. Fielding Stronghold iv. ii. 263, I realized why the ibex..smelt so strongly of the Paris métro. 1963Listener 7 Mar. 418/1 It was in the way of a roundabout and the new metro [in Rotterdam]. 1966Ibid. 1 Dec. 801/1 The underground system..is called the métro, but, typical of bilingual Montreal, is more often referred to as the subway. 1973Nat. Geographic May 658/1 The Metro, Mexico's new subway system, is one of the wonders of the city. |