A metre is 100 centimetres.
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Metre
//ˈmiːtəɹ//
Synonyms for "metre" (9 found)
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3 entriesderived
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1 entrieshas context
4 entriesrelated to
12 entriesTranslations
125 translations across 98 languages.
Adyghe
1 entries- метр noun (unit of length)
Afrikaans
1 entries- meter noun (unit of length)
Albanian
1 entries- metër noun (unit of length)
Amharic
1 entries- ሜትር noun (unit of length)
Arabic
3 entries- متر noun (unit of length)
- متر noun (unit of length)
- مِتْر noun (unit of length)
Armenian
1 entries- մետր noun (unit of length)
Asturian
1 entries- metru noun (unit of length)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- metr noun (unit of length)
Bashkir
1 entries- метр noun (unit of length)
Belarusian
2 entries- метр noun (unit of length)
- мэ́тар noun (unit of length)
Bengali
1 entries- মিটার noun (unit of length)
Bulgarian
1 entries- ме́тър noun (unit of length)
Burmese
1 entries- မီတာ noun (unit of length)
Catalan
1 entries- metre noun (unit of length)
Chinese
4 entries- метр noun (unit of length)
- ми noun (unit of length)
- 公尺 noun (unit of length)
- 米 noun (unit of length)
Chinese Cantonese
2 entries- 公尺 noun (unit of length)
- 米 noun (unit of length)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 公尺 noun (unit of length)
- 米 noun (unit of length)
- 米突 noun (unit of length)
Czech
1 entries- metr noun (unit of length)
Danish
1 entries- meter noun (unit of length)
Dutch
1 entries- meter noun (unit of length)
Esperanto
2 entries- metro noun (unit of length)
- metro noun (rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition)
Estonian
1 entries- meeter noun (unit of length)
Faroese
1 entries- metur noun (unit of length)
Finnish
1 entries- metri noun (unit of length)
French
1 entries- mètre noun (unit of length)
Galician
1 entries- metro noun (unit of length)
Georgian
1 entries- მეტრი noun (unit of length)
German
3 entries- Meter noun (unit of length)
- Metrum noun (rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition)
- Versmaß noun (rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition)
Greek
1 entries- μέτρο noun (unit of length)
Gujarati
1 entries- મીટર noun (unit of length)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- mèt noun (unit of length)
Hakka Chinese
3 entries- 公尺 noun (unit of length)
- 米 noun (unit of length)
- 米打 noun (unit of length)
Hawaiian
1 entries- mīka noun (unit of length)
Hebrew
1 entries- מֶטֶר noun (unit of length)
Hindi
2 entries- छंद noun (rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition)
- मीटर noun (unit of length)
Hungarian
4 entries- metrum noun (rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition)
- méter noun (unit of length)
- versmérték noun (rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition)
- ütem noun (rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition)
Icelandic
1 entries- metri noun (unit of length)
Ido
1 entries- metro noun (unit of length)
Indonesian
1 entries- meter noun (unit of length)
Ingrian
1 entries- metra noun (unit of length)
Interlingua
1 entries- metro noun (unit of length)
Irish
1 entries- méadar noun (unit of length)
Italian
1 entries- metro noun (unit of length)
Japanese
2 entries- メートル noun (unit of length)
- ㍍ noun (unit of length)
Jarai
1 entries- mĕt noun (unit of length)
Kannada
1 entries- ಮೀಟರು noun (unit of length)
Kazakh
1 entries- метр noun (unit of length)
Khmer
1 entries- ម៉ែត្រ noun (unit of length)
Korean
2 entries- 메터 noun (unit of length)
- 미터 noun (unit of length)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- метр noun (unit of length)
Lao
1 entries- ແມັດ noun (unit of length)
Latin
1 entries- metrum noun (unit of length)
Latvian
1 entries- metrs noun (unit of length)
Limburgish
1 entries- maeter noun (unit of length)
Lingala
1 entries- metele noun (unit of length)
Lithuanian
1 entries- metras noun (unit of length)
Lü
1 entries- ᦶᦙᧆ noun (unit of length)
Macedonian
1 entries- метар noun (unit of length)
Malay
1 entries- meter noun (unit of length)
Malayalam
2 entries- മീറ്റർ noun (unit of length)
- വൃത്തം noun (rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition)
Mongolian
1 entries- метр noun (unit of length)
Mòcheno
1 entries- meter noun (unit of length)
Māori
1 entries- mita noun (unit of length)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- meter noun (unit of length)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- meter noun (unit of length)
Ossetian
1 entries- метр noun (unit of length)
Pannonian Rusyn
1 entries- метер noun (unit of length)
Persian
1 entries- متر noun (unit of length)
Polish
2 entries- metr noun (unit of length)
- metrum noun (rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition)
Portuguese
1 entries- metro noun (unit of length)
Romanian
1 entries- metru noun (unit of length)
Russian
1 entries- метр noun (unit of length)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- mȅtar noun (unit of length)
- ме̏тар noun (unit of length)
Shan
1 entries- မႅတ် noun (unit of length)
Sinhalese
1 entries- මීටර් noun (unit of length)
Slovak
1 entries- meter noun (unit of length)
Slovene
1 entries- meter noun (unit of length)
Spanish
1 entries- metro noun (unit of length)
Swahili
1 entries- mita noun (unit of length)
Swedish
1 entries- meter noun (unit of length)
Tagalog
2 entries- metro noun (unit of length)
- panukat noun (unit of length)
Tajik
1 entries- метр noun (unit of length)
Tamil
1 entries- மீட்டர் noun (unit of length)
Tatar
1 entries- метр noun (unit of length)
Telugu
1 entries- మీటరు noun (unit of length)
Thai
1 entries- เมตร noun (unit of length)
Tigrinya
1 entries- ሜትሮ noun (unit of length)
Turkish
1 entries- metre noun (unit of length)
Turkmen
1 entries- metr noun (unit of length)
Ukrainian
1 entries- метр noun (unit of length)
Urdu
1 entries- میٹر noun (unit of length)
Uyghur
1 entries- مېتىر noun (unit of length)
Uzbek
1 entries- metr noun (unit of length)
Vietnamese
3 entries- mét noun (unit of length)
- thước noun (unit of length)
- thước tây noun (unit of length)
Walloon
1 entries- mete noun (unit of length)
Yakut
1 entries- миэтэрэ noun (unit of length)
Yiddish
1 entries- מעטער noun (unit of length)
Yoruba
1 entries- mítà noun (unit of length)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
The words above the door of the theatre were a metre high.
Source: tatoeba (238479)
The power delivered by a one square metre solar panel is approximately one watt. Therefore it is currently difficult to harvest solar energy on a grand scale.
Source: tatoeba (438600)
All trees and shrubs must be trimmed so that their branches are no closer than one metre from a power line.
Source: tatoeba (2885186)
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