"métro" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: métros [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} métro (plural métros)
  1. Alternative form of metro Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: metro
    Sense id: en-métro-en-noun-NieL8Z~G Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "text": "And so we can conclude from all this that when Maigret does take the métro, it’s always for a practical purpose, never for the pleasure of the voyage, a pleasure he can find in slumping in the seat of a taxi, or in smoking his pipe on the platform of a bus, while regarding the spectacle of the teeming streets of “his” city[…].",
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