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Webster 1913 Edition
Subway
Sub′wayˊ
,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 2025
subway
subway
English
Subway Noun-Definition 3.
A tunnel for pedestrians.
A tunnel for pedestrians.

A subway station in Munich, Germany
Noun
subway (plural subways)
- (Canada, US, Scotland) An underground railway, especially for mass transit of people in urban areas.
- (US) A rapid transit system, regardless of the elevation of its right of way.
- (Britain) An underground walkway, tunnel for pedestrians (called pedestrian underpass in US).
Synonyms
(underground railway):
(rapid transit system):
(underground walkway):
Translations
underground railway
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underground walkway
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Verb
subway (third-person singular simple present subways, present participle subwaying, simple past and past participle subwayed)
- (intransitive, US, informal) To travel by underground railway.