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Webster 1913 Edition


Subway

Sub′wayˊ

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Noun.
1.
An underground way or gallery; especially, a passage under a street, in which water mains, gas mains, telegraph wires, etc., are conducted.

Definition 2024


subway

subway

English

Subway Noun-Definition 3.
A tunnel for pedestrians.
A subway station in Munich, Germany

Noun

subway (plural subways)

  1. (Canada, US, Scotland) An underground railway, especially for mass transit of people in urban areas.
  2. (US) A rapid transit system, regardless of the elevation of its right of way.
  3. (Britain) An underground walkway, tunnel for pedestrians (called pedestrian underpass in US).

Synonyms

(underground railway):

(rapid transit system):

(underground walkway):

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Verb

subway (third-person singular simple present subways, present participle subwaying, simple past and past participle subwayed)

  1. (intransitive, US, informal) To travel by underground railway.
    • 2008 February 13, Melissa Clark, “From Paris, With Hustle”, in New York Times:
      I suppose I could have subwayed around town in search of froufrou French pastry shops.

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