subway

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sub·way /ˈsʌbweɪ/ noun [countableC]

1 American EnglishAmETTT a railway system that runs under the ground below a big city 地下铁道，地铁 SYN British English underground

the New York City subway

纽约市的地铁

a crowded subway station

拥挤的地铁站

Boston has the oldest subway system in the US.

波士顿拥有美国最老的地铁运输系统。

2. TTR British EnglishBrE a path for people to walk under a road or railway 〔公路或铁路下的〕地下通道，地下人行道 SYN underpass

n THESAURUS

the subway American EnglishAmE the railway system that runs under the ground below a big city. British people use the underground when talking about the railway system in London, and many systems outside the US

the New York subway

We got on the next subway train.

the underground British EnglishBrE the railway system that runs under the ground below a big city

the London underground

an underground map

It’s quickest to travel by underground.

the tube British EnglishBrE informal the railway system that runs under London

We took the tube to Trafalgar Square.

a crowded tube train

the metro used especially to talk about the railway system that runs under Paris. Also used about some other city’s systems, for example Moscow, Washington DC and Newcastle

the Paris Metro

Moscow’s metro stations

Examples from the Corpus

subway• The vision of unity I saw on that subway begins here to extend beyond humanity to the whole natural world.• I legged it over to Broadway and caught the subway.• If he remembered our meeting in the subway or my relationship to my aunt, very correctly, he gave no sign.• One of my Hope patients was married to one of the subway workmen.• The renewal of the subway station, for example, presented a series of problems only hinted at here.• I wish I could work out how to use the subway.• Mira Sorvino stars in this dim-witted, dimly lit monster flick about gigantic cockroaches living in the New York subway system.

subway system• Near the window, he put up a framed map of the New York City subway system.• The map of the New York City subway system was pinned to the wall above his bed.• The Metro subway system was operating only a limited schedule of trains, on portions of its system that are underground.• Mitchell visualized a hormonal flow chart that resembled a metropolitan subway system, all lines headed for the downtown station.• Rumours circulate of bombs in New York's subway system, and the poisoning of water wells.• The only reliable mode of mass transportation was the subway system.• Mira Sorvino stars in this dim-witted, dimly lit monster flick about gigantic cockroaches living in the New York subway system.

sub·way noun →n THESAURUS1

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