subwaysub‧way /ˈsʌbweɪ/ ●●○ noun [countable] 
the New York City subway a crowded subway station Boston has the oldest subway system in the US.2 British English a path for people to walk under a road or railway SYN underpassTHESAURUSthe subway American English 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 English 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 English informal the railway system that runs under London: · We took the tube to Trafalgar Square.· a crowded tube trainthe 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
- I legged it over to Broadway and caught the subway.
- I wish I could work out how to use the subway.
- If he remembered our meeting in the subway or my relationship to my aunt, very correctly, he gave no sign.
- Mira Sorvino stars in this dim-witted, dimly lit monster flick about gigantic cockroaches living in the New York subway system.
- 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.
- The vision of unity I saw on that subway begins here to extend beyond humanity to the whole natural world.
THESAURUS
American English 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.
British English 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.
British English informal the railway system that runs under London: · We took the tube to Trafalgar Square.· a crowded tube train
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
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Boston has the oldest subway system in the US.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
Boston has the oldest subway system in the US.· Then there was the time he forgot his briefcase in a subway car.
· Many urban homeless were seeking refuge in subway stations and bus depots.· He heard tourists go past his door talking about the sights, the beautiful subway stations, amazing bronze and marble sculpture.· We went into the lounge bar of an old hotel beside the subway station.· The renewal of the subway station, for example, presented a series of problems only hinted at here.· The brief lull that had cheered my walk home from the Fernhill subway station was over.· Across the street was another subway station as Dadaistically set amid suburban grass and trees.· They leave together and Primo walks her to the subway station on Delancey Street.· Candy bars, bought at the Picadilly Circus subway station, had to suffice for dinner on the bus.
· The only reliable mode of mass transportation was the subway system.· Rumours circulate of bombs in New York's subway system, and the poisoning of water wells.· Mitchell visualized a hormonal flow chart that resembled a metropolitan subway system, all lines headed for the downtown station.· Mira Sorvino stars in this dim-witted, dimly lit monster flick about gigantic cockroaches living in the New York 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.
· Then the subway train was held up for twenty minutes.· A speeding subway train startled them as it roared out of its tunnel like a metal earthworm.· It had begun with a strange episode on a speeding subway train.· The unlucky or unwary freeze in the streets or are hit by passing subway trains.
VERB· He rides the subway, rubs shoulders with the crowd, feels himself lunging towards a sense of the moment.· When he rode the subway business types and blond women in pretty office wear would move away from him.· He rode the subway up to Inwood, out to Sheepshead Bay.
· They took the subway out of that world every morning and returned to it every afternoon.· I took the subway home at two in the morning, the car littered with beer cans and streamers.· I skipped the bar and took the subway home.· Now I had to take the subway home, and my mascara was running.· I flew to New York and took the subway up to Harlem to view her at the funeral home.
WORD FAMILYnounwaysubwayadverbmidwaywayadjectivemidway
1American English a railway system that runs under the ground below a big city SYN underground British English: the New York City subway a crowded subway station Boston has the oldest subway system in the US.2 British English a path for people to walk under a road or railway SYN underpassTHESAURUSthe subway American English 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 English 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 English informal the railway system that runs under London: · We took the tube to Trafalgar Square.· a crowded tube trainthe 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