Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

rer

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.41 in modern English

Syllables: rer
IPA

3

Scrabble Score

3

Letters

1

Syllables

2

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A type of railway system that generally runs from suburbs or satellite towns into a city centre, with a central tunnel or overground corridor with higher speeds and more widely spread stations than a subway or metro.

name

Any of many RER systems in French-speaking countries.

name

GO Expansion, a project to improve commuter rail in Ontario.

Example Sentences

"[…] the recently approved Crossrail link, together with the existing Thameslink, constitute the basis of an RER for London, which by the end of this decade will provide a single system, linking Reading with Colchester and Cambridge[…]"
"Reinvented according to this model—called regional express rail (RER)—Metra's key hubs would be O'Hare Airport, the Loop, and McCormick Place."
"GO Transit also uses some tunnels in the city. Its Metrolinx RER programme includes laying 150km (93 miles) of new track, and some of this, for example under Highways 401 and 409, will be in tunnel."

Etymology

From French RER, often reinterpreted as "Regional Express Rail".

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: RER

Inflected Forms

RERs (plural)

Questions

What does rer mean?: A type of railway system that generally runs from suburbs or satellite towns into a city centre, with a central tunnel or overground corridor with higher speeds and more widely spread stations than a subway or metro.
Where does rer come from?: It is traced to French.

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