subway
Etymology Pronunciation
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Etymology Pronunciation
- (British, America) IPA: /ˈsʌbˌweɪ/, [ˈsʌbˌweɪ̯]
subway (plural subways)
- (North America, Scotland, South Africa) An underground railway, especially for mass transit of people in urban areas.
- (North America, Scotland, South Africa) A train that runs on such an underground railway.
- (Canada, US) A rapid transit system, regardless of the elevation of its right of way; a metro system.
- (British) An underground walkway, tunnel for pedestrians (called pedestrian underpass in US).
- An underground route for pipes, sewers, etc.
- metro; Métro (Paris)
- tube; Tube (London)
- underground, underground railway
- rapid transit
- underpass
- French: métro, métropolitain
- German: U-Bahn, Metro, Untergrundbahn
- Italian: metrò, metropolitana
- Portuguese: metro (Portugal), metrô (Brazil)
- Russian: метро́
- Spanish: metro, subte (Argentina)
- German: U-Bahn, Untergrundbahn
- Portuguese: (Brazil) metrô, (Portugal) metro
- Spanish: metro
- French: passage souterrain, souterrain
- German: Unterführung
- Italian: sottopasso
- Portuguese: passagem subterrânea
- Russian: подземный переход
- Spanish: paso subterráneo
subway (subways, present participle subwaying; simple past and past participle subwayed)
- (intransitive, US, informal) To travel by underground railway.
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