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[ suhb-wey ] / ˈsʌbˌweɪ / SEE SYNONYMS FOR subway ON THESAURUS.COM
nounAlso called, especially British, tube, underground. an underground electric railroad, usually in a large city. Chiefly British. a short tunnel or underground passageway for pedestrians, automobiles, etc.; underpass. verb (used without object)to be transported by a subway: We subwayed uptown. Origin of subwayFirst recorded in 1820–30; sub- + way1 Words nearby subwaysubvisible, subvocal, subvocal speech, sub voce, subvolution, subway, subwoofer, sub-zero, subzone, suc, succah Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for subwayOther footage shows him fleeing, keeping to a quick walk, jogging briefly, then walking again as he heads for a subway station. Exclusive: Inside a Cop-Killer’s Final Hours|Michael Daly|December 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST They waved down a pair of responding cops who followed the alleged cop killer into the subway. Alleged Cop Killer Ismaaiyl Brinsley Had a Death Wish|M.L. Nestel|December 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST Citizens were watching in shock from above on the subway station. Anger at The Cop Killer - And The Police|M.L. Nestel|December 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST “They also were responsible for the Barcelona subway plot,” a plan disrupted by Spanish law enforcement in 2008. Pakistani School Killers Want to Strike the U.S.|Sami Yousafzai, Christopher Dickey|December 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
There was no trouble on the ferry as it reached Manhattan and a few of the passengers boarded the subway to the protest uptown. ‘I Can’t Breathe!’ ‘I Can’t Breathe!’ A Moral Indictment of Cop Culture|Michael Daly|December 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST He remembered the face of his own mother dimly through the years; it was a little like what he wanted to see here in the subway. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story|Various Who wants to pick up with anyone they can vamp in the Subway? Working With the Working Woman|Cornelia Stratton Parker The two flaxen-haired tots were looking down the long platform, into the gloom of the long tunnel of the subway. The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City|Laura Lee Hope It was new, it had island platforms and a subway, and the superficial comfort exacted by business men. Howards End|E. M. Forster I took the subway to Spring street, walked across to the Bowery, and a few blocks on the other side of it, came to the Settlement. The Seven-Branched Candlestick|Gilbert W. (Gilbert Wolf) Gabriel
British Dictionary definitions for subway
nounBritish an underground passage or tunnel enabling pedestrians to cross a road, railway, etc an underground passage or tunnel for traffic, electric power supplies, etc mainly US and Canadian an underground railway Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to subwayunderground, metro, tube, chute |