subway

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Etymology

sub- (“under”) + way

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Noun

subway (plural subways)

1. (North America) 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. (UK) underground walkway, tunnel for pedestrians (called pedestrian underpass in US).

Synonyms

metro rapid transit tube

underground underpass

Translations

underground railway

• Afrikaans: moltrein
• Arabic: مترو (ar) (mitru, metro) m
• Bulgarian: метро (bg) (metró) n
• Catalan: metro (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 地鐵 (cmn), 地铁 (cmn) (dìtiě), 地下鐵路 (cmn), 地下铁路 (cmn) (dìxià tiělù)

• Czech: metro (cs) n, podzemní dráha (cs) f
• Dutch: metro (nl) m
• Esperanto: metroo (eo)
• Finnish: metro (fi)
• French: métro (fr) m, métropolitain (fr) m
• German: U-Bahn (de) f, Metro (de) f, Untergrundbahn (de) f
• Greek: μετρό (el) (metró), υπόγειος (el) (ypógeios) m
• Hungarian: metró (hu)
• Interlingua: metro

• Irish: traein faoi thalamh (ga) f
• Italian: metrò (it) m and f, metropolitana (it) f
• Japanese: 地下鉄 (ja) (ちかてつ, chikatetsu), メトロ (ja) (metoro)
• Korean: 지하철 (ko) (jihacheol) (地下鐵)
• Macedonian: метро (mk) (metró) n
• Polish: metro (pl) n
• Portuguese: metro (pt) m (Portugal), metrô (pt) m (Brazil)
• Romanian: metrou (ro) n
• Russian: (indeclinable) метро (ru) (metró) n, метрополитен (ru) (metropolitɛ́n) m, подземка (ru) (podzémka) n
• Scottish Gaelic: fo-rèile (gd) f
• Spanish: metro (es) m, subte (es) m (Argentina)
• Swedish: tunnelbana (sv) c
• Ukrainian: метро (uk) (metró) n
• Vietnamese: xe điện ngầm (vi)
• West Frisian: metro

underground walkway

• Dutch: voetgangerstunnel (nl) m
• Greek: υπόγεια διάβαση πεζών (el) (ypógeia diávasi pezón) f
• Hungarian: aluljáró (hu)
• Interlingua: passage subterranee
• Irish: íosbhealach (ga) m
• Japanese: 地下道 (ja) (ちかどう, chikadō)

• Korean: 지하도 (jihado), 토끼굴 (tokkigul)
• Macedonian: подземен премин (mk) (pódzemen prémin) m
• Portuguese: passagem subterrânea f
• Romanian: pasaj subteran n
• Scottish Gaelic: fo-shlighe (gd) f, fo-rathad (gd) m
• Spanish: paso subterráneo m

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”, New York Times:

     I suppose I could have subwayed around town in search of froufrou French pastry shops.

Anagrams

• busway