Metre
Noun
UK
/ˈmiː.tər/
US
/ˈmiː.tər/
Definition
A unit for measuring length.
Example
"The desk is one metre long."
"The race track is four hundred metres, which students run during sports day."
"We measured the room and found it was six metres wide and eight metres long."
Explanation
A metre is a unit used to measure length. One metre is equal to 100 centimetres or a little longer than one yard. For example, the table is two metres long means the table’s length is two metres. People use metres measure height, distance, or length of things like rooms, ropes, or roads.
👉 In American English, it’s spelled “meter”, but the meaning is the same.