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-metre

-metre is the alternative form of -meter.

Meaning of -meter

Suffix

-meter (noun-forming suffix, plural -meters)

  1. Used to form the names of measuring devices.

Forms of -metre

plural-metres

Questions about -metre

What is -metre the alternative form of?
-metre is the alternative form of -meter.

Words near -metre in the dictionary

  1. -metacin
  2. -metasone
  3. -meter
  4. -meters
  5. -methasone
  6. -metre
  7. -metres
  8. -metric
  9. -metrics
  10. -metry
  11. -micin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: -metre (page history and authors); -meter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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