metre

Universal Words (BrE) (AmE meter) noun (abbreviation m) 1 [C] a unit for measuring length; a hundred CENTIMETRES 2 (metres) used in the name of races: She came second in the 200 metres. * the 4ﾗ100 metres relay 3 [U,C] the arrangement of strong and weak stresses in lines of poetry that produces the rhythm; a particular example of this