Fromsub- +‎way.

• (UK,US)IPA^(key):/ˈsʌbˌweɪ/,[ˈsʌbˌweɪ̯]

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• Rhymes:-ʌbweɪ

subway (pluralsubways)

1. (Canada,US,Scotland,South Africa) Anunderground railway, especially formass transit of people inurban areas.
   • 2012, Andrew Martin,Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books,→ISBN, page98:

     In 1884 Greathead was part of a syndicate that obtained powers for anothersubway – 'The City of London & Southwark Subway'. The term 'subway' sounded more sophisticated than 'underground railway', which was associated with the sulphurousMetropolitan, and it would be adopted by New York for its own electric metro when work started on that in 1904.

2. (Canada,US,Scotland,South Africa) Atrain that runs on such an underground railway.
   • 1981 April 29, Russel Baker, “And Only Sixty Cents”, inThe New York Times‎^[1]:

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

3. (Canada,US) A rapid transit system, regardless of the elevation of itsright of way; ametro system.
4. (British) An underground walkway,tunnel forpedestrians (calledpedestrian underpass in US).
   • 1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, inRailway Magazine, page265:

     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 asubway.

   • 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Didcot (1932)”, inRAIL, number947, page60:

     Heading beneath the tracks via thesubway to the immediate north of the station takes us to the Didcot Railway Centre.

5. An underground route for pipes, sewers, etc.
6. An underground route for creatures (e.g. bats).

(underground railway):

• metro;Métro(Paris)
• tube;Tube(London)
• underground,underground railway

(rapid transit system):

• rapid transit

(underground walkway):

• underpass

subway (third-person singular simple presentsubways,present participlesubwaying,simple past and past participlesubwayed)

1. (intransitive,US,informal) Totravel byundergroundrailway.
   • 2008 February 13, Melissa Clark, “From Paris, With Hustle”, inNew York Times‎^[2]:

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

• busway

subway m (pluralsubwaysorsubway)

1. subway