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subway - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'subway' (Webster Dictionary)

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

Meaning of 'subway' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . subway [ n]
Meaning (1):
- an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city)
Example in sentence:
  • in Paris the subway system is called the `metro' and in London it is called the `tube' or the `underground'