metros
- 1Plural of metro.
Several of the world's newest metros run trains without drivers.
Home prices rose fastest in the smaller metros of the Southeast last year.
Note
Two quite different things share this plural: rail systems, or the trains that run on them, and whole metropolitan areas. Talk of riders, stations and drivers points to the first; talk of home prices, jobs and population points to the second. Even within the rail meaning, metros can be whole networks or single trains, and only the surrounding sentence settles which.
metros is a form of metro
metro, noun: A rapid-transit rail system that serves a metropolitan area and usually runs underground, or a single train on that system. Full entry
- Forms
- metrometros plural
- Spelling
- metro → metros: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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