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Grammar : Noun
Spell : suhb-wey
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsʌbˌweɪ



Définition of subway

Origin :
  • 1825, "underground passage" (for water pipes or pedestrians), from sub- + way. The sense of "underground railway in a city" is first recorded 1893, in reference to Boston.
  • noun underground railroad
Example sentences :
  • We were both hanging to straps in the subway and we had but a moment before he got off.
  • Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole
  • And the girl, journeying in the subway to and from her work!
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 » by Various
  • Morrow sped as fast as elevated and subway could carry him to the Bronx.
  • Extract from : « The Crevice » by William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander
  • He took the Subway back to the Grand Central, and walked from there to the club.
  • Extract from : « The Wall Street Girl » by Frederick Orin Bartlett
  • It was not for that, or for him, that she was then in the subway, but for dinner.
  • Extract from : « The Paliser case » by Edgar Saltus
  • In the subway, the following evening, Cassy saw a man eyeing her.
  • Extract from : « The Paliser case » by Edgar Saltus
  • In the cañon below, Jones, as he piloted her to the subway, pulled at his gloves.
  • Extract from : « The Paliser case » by Edgar Saltus
  • Passengers are requested to cross over the railway by the subway.
  • Extract from : « The New Pun Book » by Thomas A. Brown and Thomas Joseph Carey
  • The subway, Forrester told himself solemnly, didn't do that.
  • Extract from : « Pagan Passions » by Gordon Randall Garrett
  • Then the smoky dive across the Schuylkill and the bellow of the subway.
  • Extract from : « Pipefuls » by Christopher Morley

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