subway : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: subway	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
subway n 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'" Synonym(s): metro, tube, underground, subway system, subway an underground tunnel or passage enabling pedestrians to cross a road or railway Synonym(s): underpass, subway
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Subway \Sub"way`\, n. An underground way or gallery; especially, a passage under a street, in which water mains, gas mains, telegraph wires, etc., are conducted.