subway

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city)

   in Paris the subway system is called the `metro' and in London it is called the `tube' or the `underground'

2. 2
   noun

   An underground railway, especially for mass transit of people in urban areas.

   He is going to Westminster by subway.

3. 3
   noun

   A train that runs on such an underground railway.

   Just before you leave, the subway comes. You get on. It stops at the next station.

4. 4
   noun

   An underground walkway, tunnel for pedestrians (called pedestrian underpass in US).

   At Nairobi the mail waits an hour-and-a-half. The station has three long platforms, mostly covered in awnings, the island connected with the main platform (which is used by the mails in both directions) by a subway.

5. 5
   verb

   To travel by underground railway.

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

6. 6
   noun

   an underground tunnel or passage enabling pedestrians to cross a road or railway

7. 7
   noun

   A rapid transit system, regardless of the elevation of its right of way; a metro system.

8. 8
   noun

   An underground route for pipes, sewers, etc.

Etymology

From sub- + way.